[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 Samface on 17-Jun-2002 08:16 GMT | In reply to Comment 162 (Janne Sirén): Sorry for ruining such a fine and well thought out reply...
>>Criticism is good, spreading that cricism as facts all over the net isn't.
>>Tell me, what was the good part about his article at OSOpinion.com?
> I'd guess even the domain name OS Opinion suggest firmly that he was
> expressing an opinion. "Tech opinion commentary - for the people, by the
> people." You seem to have a problem with free speech?
Sure, it's an opinion. But, it's still based on innaccurate facts which he tells everyone about while trying to convince us about his opinion. I'm not complaining about his opinion, I'm complaining about the facts which he is constantly refering to when telling us about his opinion, see the difference?
>> Nobody is planning, designing, building or providing specifications for any
>> new Amiga machines...
> Well, this has been debated here, but really, nobody is planning any custom
> hardware in the original sense of Amiga. Even the Zico spec has been
> obsoleted according to Gary.
Hrm... He's complaining about the AmigaOS beeing tied to propriety hardware (such as the AmigaOne) while at the same time claiming there is no Amiga specific hardware? That made perfect sense, right?
I'm sorry but the AmigaOne is based on a design made specificly for Eyetech, in cooperatiion with Amiga Inc., targeted specificly for the Amiga desktop market. Why do you constantly deny it's existence?
>> Amiga users were happy to hear this...
> Well, even myself thought we'd be getting an open hardware platform. I was
> happy with the idea. Whether or not everybody was happy, who knows. But I
> feel the general mood this sentence conveys was pretty accurate.
Where did you get this idea from? Noone *ever* said that the AmigaOS4 was going to be "Open Platform" and POP was never mentioned. You made this one up on your own, I'm afraid.
>>As a result, several of us said, "Finally, our favorite OS would break loose
>>from its shackles of custom-made proprietary hardware!"
> I feel this to be approriate.
No, they only said that the classic Amiga custom chipset dependencies would be removed, not that the AmigaOS would become "Open Platform". Just face it, you jumped into conclusions and you got nobody but yourselves to blame for this.
>Huh? Hey! What "Amiga desktop platform"? They promised us AmigaOS!
>Our "platform" is none of their business...
They are still the ones to decide which hardware they will support. You can't simply force a software developer to support a certain piece of hardware just because you want it. The software developer himself makes this decision just like Macromedia has decided to not make an Amiga version of their Dreamweaver or Flash player.
Also, Amiga owns the brand and that's why they get to decide what is the "Amiga" platform, noone but Amiga Inc. is entitled to this. None of *us* paid $5 million for the brand and therefore it's not "our" platform.
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