[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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osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! : Comment 126 of 169 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Adam Kowalczyk on 14-Jun-2002 23:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 125 (Alkis Tsapanidis): > 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).
Actually, you should have added: 4) None of the above. My understanding of Commodore's demise was that it had more to do with it's failure in the PC clone business and that the Amiga component of the company was doing well. I don't recall anyone wanting to make Amiga clones in the pre-bankrupt era, but will agree that weak marketing and poor management did hurt the company
> 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.
"Clones" are typically licensed, at least this was true in the era of Apple clones. Amiga is promoting licensing not preventing it. It's just noone other than Eyetech and Elbox have officially agreed to the licensing arrangements. Until these magical mystery POP board makers come out of the woodwork, I'd have to say that OS 4.0 will be running on as big a segment of the POP market as they can. I don't consider the evaluation boards an option, nor do I consider the Barbie board a real option. If people are critical of the Eyetech board, why the heck would you want a Barbie. Maybe the "Ken" upgrade to the Barbie has some real balls ;) This is where I find the petition to be weak, there aren't many options to the Eyetech board that are being mass produced other than the Pegasos. |
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