[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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Posted by Seehund on 12-Jun-2002 07:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (Samface): Samface, please stop it yourself. "Your" arguments are getting boring, because they are the same as the transparent excuses we all could read in black and white on amiga.com since day 1. Also, stop confusing the term "FUD" with "opinions". FUD is a marketing technique based on conjecture utilised to make your competitors' products look less attractive.
The petition and my article don't deal with legal details unknown to the public. It deals with the faults of the *BASIC PRINCIPLES* presented by Amiga Inc. itself. If the basic principles presented by Amiga Inc. are incorrect, then the company should retract them and present what it wants to do instead. Two months should have been ample time to do that.
Nowhere is anybody saying that removing unnnecessary obstacles against having AmigaOS running on as much hardware as possible will automatically mean that it will run on any piece of plastic and silicon with a PPC processor.
Of course work on compatibility has to be done (and it has to be done by the software developer!), but naturally the presented policies aren't necessary in any way for such work to be done. Hardware developers/vendors provide documentation and code to software developers every damn day without any license agreements or need to sell the software bundled with their hardware. If they don't, well tough shit, but of course they won't be more cooperative if they have to comply to somebody's licensing terms and sell somebody else's OS with their hardware. Compulsory licensing etc. are an obstacle against the cooperation of which you speak.
For guaranteeing compatibility we have already seen that the licensing is totally meaningless. The short list (1 item) of licensed "new" hardware was presented before AmigaOS4 ran on any hardware at all, because the kernel was not even in alpha stage and development of other OS components have admittedly so far been developed in 68k environments and on old PPC-accelerators. Neither was that single piece of licensed hardware available in its final shape.
Here, have an URL: http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk - go read the information, FAQs and comments there and come up with an opinion and arguments of your own. Just because one loves AmigaOS, one doesn't have to try to excuse every decision by the company owning its trademarks no matter how outrageous those decisions might be. |
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