[Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments View flat View list |
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Posted by Chisholm on 13-Jun-2002 13:56 GMT | I cannot really understand what is going on here. What the heck happens with you? It seems that most people in the community have gone nuts as of late. I mean, how on earth can you expect Hyperion to support every single piece of PPC hardware when:
1) The most successful and widespread PPC boards are made by a company (AKA Apple) which will never release the required low-level hardware details to make a port of OS4 possible.
2) OS4 for Pegasos is a utopia. The single mention of Pegasos as a target hardware platform for OS4 in the famous article really cracked me up. How can anybody be so naive as to state that, at this stage, a port for Pegasos is still possible? I think it is not that difficult to understand that Bplan will NEVER allow any kind of development of a rival OS to their MorphOS for their hardware, which I find fair enough, for it is their hardware. In the long run I reckon the end user is the one who will be harmed by these decisions, though.
3) The technical resources needed to tackle a release for multiple hardware platforms are immense. It is not only a matter of having the damn HAL working its magic, but it is also a problem when it comes to working on various drivers for the OS. It is no good having a topnotch OS if it does not support a wide range of hardware, at least wide enough to satisfy the needs of the users. Most people take for granted how time-consuming the damn driver making thing can be. Either Hyperion focus on making a good, solid OS with enough drivers for a handful of target hardware platforms or they simple make an inconsistent and incomplete OS for a wide variety of hardware, with little support and very few drivers.
There are some more reasons which suggest that this thing of closed hardware has more to do with narrow-minded people with close views of the whole issue than with a real problem with regard to the attitude of AInc/Hyperion towards the 'problem'. All the same, I would not like to bother you and, anyway, it seems that most of you have already made up your mind and will never try to understand a different point of view, so I had better stop writing now.
I hope some of you at least try to be a bit more understanding with regard to these policies, because, all in all, they do nothing but protect the end user against abusive hardware manufacturers and retailers. |
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