[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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Comment 1 | Alkis Tsapanidis | | 11-Jun-2002 22:36 GMT |
Comment 2 | TBone | | 11-Jun-2002 23:31 GMT |
Comment 3 | [JC] | | 11-Jun-2002 23:31 GMT |
Comment 4 | gz | | 12-Jun-2002 00:16 GMT |
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Posted by Adam Kowalczyk on 12-Jun-2002 00:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (TBone): As far as the Pegasos and Barbie boards are concerned, it looks like a third party is going to have to come forward and have that hardware licensed. I have a hard time believing that the hard core LinuxPPC supporters will buy a board for Linux and then possibly want to run Amiga OS 4.x, whereas I feel the converse is true. I still maintain that the people making the most noise about Amiga's licensing issue are not people doing it for the good of the POP platform, but rather are doing so because in their mind they want to run OS 4.x on a board different than Eyetech's AmigaOne.
If you want to run OS 4.x, buy an Eyetech AmigaOne or a PPC equipped classic machine. If you want to run it on a Barbie or Pegasos, talk to some third party who is willing to go through the proper channels and take some financial risk. It would be nice to think that the people who have signed these petitions would be buying a POP motherboard together with a copy of OS 4.0, but I have my doubts. At this point in time the companies working on a future for the next generation Amiga are Amiga Inc., Hyperion, and Eyetech. These are the companies taking the financial risks to move the platform forward.
Now let's do a little math. Let's say 1000 people sign the petition, and 90 percent of those people truly would buy OS 4.0. Let's ballpark the cost of OS 4.0 at $100.00 USD. The related Amiga companies would be losing potentially $90,000.00 USD. That amount might be able to pay a years salary for two programmers out of school, let alone someone with experience. I think it's going to take a lot more signatures on petitions before anyone is going to take them seriously.
Now here's a suggestion to the people who want to run OS 4.0 on their at present unlicensed board: Go out and buy a copy of OS 4.0 when it's released and then petition to get it to run on your POP board. As they say "Money talks and bullsh*t walks." Alternatively, when someone hacks the OS to run on these boards, have the decency to buy a legitimate copy and support the people that made it possible. |
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