| [Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments
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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 |
| Comment 5 | Adam Kowalczyk | | 12-Jun-2002 00:24 GMT |
| Comment 6 | Marcus Sundman | | 12-Jun-2002 00:51 GMT |
| Comment 7 | Björn Hagström | | 12-Jun-2002 02:59 GMT |
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| Posted by Adam Kowalczyk on 12-Jun-2002 03:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (gz):
> Personally I get upset everytime when Ainc act as they were the saviours of
> amiga platform, when infact they have done nothing more than one sdk and a de > player. All other work has been done by third party and by the sole iniative > of those parties. The way I see it the only thing AI can be credited of are 2 > little products that currently have even smaller community than we have.
> I hope that will change in the future.
I don't see Amiga Inc. acting as if they are saviours of the Amiga, but rather "enablers" of the platform. Amiga Inc's ownership of the trademark and the OS has made Hyperion's work a task possible of completing within a reasonable amount of time. Having new motherboards to run this OS on will bring us up to date from a hardware point of view, and this we have to thank Eyetech. More will be and has been done with Amiga Inc. in the picture than had they not been. They also will have accomplished more in less time than competing elements of the Amiga community.
AROS has been a long running project mostly aimed at running on x86 hardware. It's goals aren't that different than Amiga Inc's.....updated OS running on newer hardware combined with the open source twist. They've been working on it since 1995 and there are a few more pieces of the puzzle to be fit together, but I'd have to say I'm pretty impressed with their work. I'm not sure how long MorphOS has been in the works, but they are basically doing the same thing on PPC hardware, albeit a closed source version of it. I strongly feel that had nobody taken the reigns from Gateway, the Amiga community would be happy with either of these two solutions and made the choice based on their preference of PPC vs x86.
Amiga's role has been one of the enabler, and they are demonstrating by working with Hyperion that it is easier and quicker to start with the source code and improve upon it instead of doing an implemenation from scratch. I guess ownership of source code does have value worth protecting. What machine a person buys may all boil down to what people consider a "real" Amiga. I am one of many who see value in Amiga's stamp of approval on the project. I do feel that work done by the AROS and MorphOS people have contributed to the Amiga community, but I do not see the three groups as having the same goal even though they may look similar.
I don't get upset if Amiga Inc. comes off as a saviour, I just understand that they are a business with certain goals to achieve in order to make the Amiga platform successful. I don't see bPlan/Thendic as any different. They too are in this market to make money, but have somewhat different goals than developing the Amiga platform. I believe AmigaOS compatibility within MorphOS is more a method to bring Amiga developers over to a new platform that will be heading in a very different direction from where Amiga Inc. is going. That is why it's so obvious that bPlan/Thendic do not want to agree to Amiga Inc. licensing requirements. They are not on the same team working towards a common goal. They are two competing companies trying to attract customers from the Amiga community. This is also why I find petitions a waste of energy as we vote with our dollars (or Euros). This is how I interpret the meaning of the petition: "I really want to buy a <insert non-Eyetech PPC board here> and run AmigaOS 4.x" It's basically telling Amiga that you're unwilling to support one of the companies that supports the direction they are heading. Is that the signal you really wanted to send? The same petition also give bPlan/Thendic an idea of the support they have for their hardware, but that maybe MorphOS isn't the best thing since sliced bread. It's the same thing the Linux people have been doing on the x86 platform. Hardware's great, cheap, ubiquitous....but <insert Winblows, Windoze, etc. here> really sucks and you're making me pay for it? |
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