| [Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments
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| Posted by 3seas on 12-Jun-2002 18:17 GMT | you all must have some pretty strong asprin or some very good reality distorting drugs.
Who really needs the headache of wondering whether or not what they buy today will be useful next week or 5 years from now? Who needs the headache of having to sort thru licenses to make sure their use of computers won't cause them to lose everything thru license related lawsuites?
Sometimes its better to take a step backward so to correct some key problems and then move forward with less stress and legal constraint batteling.
I.E. How much does one have to give up in switching from MS to GNU? and what do you suppose the mid to long term values gained is to you, for doing so?
Lets' see now, there is the "official" AmigaOS which has had a rocky water history. There is the GPL and commercial Amiga Emulators and then there is the Free/OSS and commercial Amiga work alikes - AROS and MorphOS that make porting existing Amiga applications to a non-Amiga system easier.
the only thing really to consider is whether or not Amiga Inc is going somewhere in proprietary that you want to go too, as the past development or store of applications is apparently usable thru emulation and convertable to run on work alikes. But how many developers will exclusively follow Amiga Inc. Otherwise the future of what is produced for the emulators and work alikes is just as open. And even in both of those you have an option between commercial closed source and Free open source.
Isn't it nice to have a choice?
Oh, BTW, in the open architecture spirit of the original Amiga, placing legalize hardware constraints just doesn't seem to be in that spirit. But then much about "Amiga official" has changed in relationship to technology. Once upon a time the custom hardware allowed more freedom, but as the technology in the rest of the industry moved forward while the Amiga hardware stagnated, it become more constrained. So "officially" additional constrants may very well be inline with the Amiga history direction.
But isn't it nice to have a choice where you may go? |
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