[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
here for more.
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Posted by adavidm on 12-Jun-2002 09:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (Samface): I agree wih samface here.
The only hardware manufauctures that will be affected are the one that have no interest in the Amiga. Why does this matter? How many options is this going to close off to the Amiga community? Pegasos? Name one other. If a hardware vendor wants to sell Amiga POP boards, they can. Provided, of course, that they can meet certain levels of service and support for the hardware and software. What is the problem with this? Even the Pegasos cold be used.
If we didn't have this systrem, and someone goes out and buys a board that calls itself POP compliant, but dosn't work with AmigaOS, whose fault would this be? Hyperion's? Amiga Inc's? How would the user know this in advance? Is Hyperion expected to test AmigaOS with every POP board that hits the market?
seehund wrote:
Of course, all this will create an artificial split in the POP/PPC hardware market. The exact same hardware base would become either "POP" or "POP -- but for AmigaOS."
What the hell is this about? If you buy a AmigaONE, its still a POP board! why is there a split? You don't need dongle code to run Linux on it.
There was a (very good-natured, actually) discussion on Amiga.org about this here:
http://amiga.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1252&forum=1&11
(Sorry if this appears messed up, I don't really use ANN enough to learn the escapes)
Regards
adavidm
P.S. The article was FUD IMHO because no attempt was made to try and empathise with Amiga's position on this issue, and no viable alternatives have been offere.
Apolgies for a) The long, ranting post and b) Appalling spelling, my £2 keyboard is playing up again ;-) |
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