[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 Marcus Sundman on 12-Jun-2002 08:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 10 (Bill Hoggett): > > The problem is that OS 4.0 isn't supposed to be available for buying
> > separately, but you'd have to buy a board with it.
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> That's not quite accurate. The OS will be available to buy separately, but
> it will need licensed hardware to run on, and Amiga Inc have already
> declared that all licensed hardware must be sold with OS 4.0 in the first
> place.
That contradicts the earlier statement that OS4 would be sold as OEM only.
> As a result, the only people who will benefit from the standalone
> OS 4.0 version will be CSPPC/BlizzardPPC users.
<speculation>Perhaps there will be a special version of OS4 to be run on CSPPC/BlizzardPPC, and only that version will be sold separately. That would make sense since it would be unnecessary to sell the POP versions with CSPPC/BlizzardPPC compatibility.</speculation> However, as Ben Hermans (?) earlier stated; the only exception to the "OEM only" policy was the OS4 for CSPPC/BlizzardPPC. |
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