[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
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osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! : Comment 125 of 169 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 14-Jun-2002 22:26 GMT | In reply to Comment 119 (Adam Kowalczyk): Just one question... What killed the Amiga?
1) Commodore's close mindness.
2) Weakness at marketing
3) Not letting clones appear thus not opening the Amiga market.
The only Amiga clone came TOO late to matter... (DraCo).
Amiga Inc. is doing the same mistake (#3) and that's Amiga's last
chance to survive. Windows survived cause they run on OPEN hardware
(yes the IA32 architecture IS open). If they continue like that...
they will lose in a glance of an eye...
What they should do is: Try to get OS4 on as a big segment of the POP
market as they can, secure it and THEN apply licencing policies.
Also, avoiding piracy is good for a start but after they start selling
they must allow it for some time, to spread the OS, and tighten it up
again afterwards. (as Microsoft did)
Of course this market is too small to do exactly that, but:
1) It might grow.
2) That's just a model, they don't have to follow those actions by word. |
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