[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 143 of 169 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Janne Sirén on 15-Jun-2002 15:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 142 (Adam Kowalczyk): >Apple, Compaq, HP, Dell, and Gateway do not manufacture every single product
>they make. Is the iMac II not an Apple? I'm pretty sure Flextronics
>manufactures that machine, same with the XBox. Eyetech is using the MAI board
>in a manner not expected by MAI. Who designed the actual board is irrelevant.
>Marketing in todays world has more to do with bundling and name brand
>recognition.
Agreed. I'm quite sure those who wrote the petition have no desire in questioning Amiga's claim to the trademark. In a marketing and legal sense, AmigaOne is an Amiga. However, the point the petition is making is that there will (in the foreseeable future anyway) not be any new Amigas as we used to know them.
They are motherboards made of standard hardware and at this time even lacking any special design that would make them more Amiga than something else. Now, I know this is very debatable if we take it to the details, but as far as the petition goes the argument of standard hardware (vs. real requirement of specific, proprietary hardware) does stand. We don't have any custom chips anymore. Now the only thing really custom is a hardware dongle.
Nothing bad with this. It may prove to be a great benefit for the platform. But it also separates the present from the past in a way that does give merit to the petition. Whether or not you see that merit as large enough is your opinion. At this time I haven't signed. |
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