[Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments View flat View list |
A rather unispired article at best. Read
here for more.
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Posted by Janne Sirén on 14-Jun-2002 11:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 103 (Chisholm): >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
Thendic have already said they will support anyone interested in supporting AmigaOS on Pegasos. This was stated by Bill Buck on ANN. But the licensing barrier is an added obstacle. The technological barrier we can discuss and find reasonable reasons why something couldn't be supported (like Apple if it really is that hard or somehow illegal), but add to that the license it adds to the requirements and the "height" of the barrier. That is what the petition is all about, they find this added barrier unnecessary and restrictive.
It isn't about the technological feasibility at all. And please, don't tell me you need the Amiga Inc. license to get that. You don't. You perhaps need co-operation from a vendor, but to get the technology to work you won't need the license part. It is an added obstacle. Whether or not other merits, in people's opinion, do still make the license necessary is what this petition is all about. The undersigned feel it is not necessary.
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