[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 Samface on 13-Jun-2002 10:11 GMT | In reply to Comment 84 (Seehund): I'm sorry Seehund but you obviously (and possibly intentionally) misunderstood my post completely. I said that it's easy to confuse those not sure of the meaning of the license by spreading an inaccurate interpretation of it like yours, *not* that everybody that signed it is incompetent or unintelligent in any way. Also, I do think those who have signed it has simply jumped into conclusions just like you and a clarification from Amiga Inc. would probably reduce that list by atleast 75-90%.
I've told you several times why I don't approve of the petition. It's because it states that:
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AmigaOS4 will run on POP-based ("PowerPC Open Platform") motherboards (and old 68k Amigas with various PPC expansions/accelerators) and the first motherboards said to be supported are clones of the motherboards that Mai uses for its TeronCX "evaluation board", like the boards Eyetech are distributing using the licensed trademark "AmigaOne G3-SE". Amiga Inc. does not and will not design, make or distribute any hardware at all. Nobody makes or is planning to make any "Amiga", i.e. a hardware platform meant to run AmigaOS. The Amiga hardware died in the commercial sense the day Commodore stopped their Amiga R&D.
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This whole statement is pure FUD and nothing but FUD because:
1. AmigaOS4 will only run on Amiga specific PPC hardware, POP has never been mentioned as the hardware for AmigaOS4, *ever*. Sure, Eyetech has made one AmigaOne moterboard based on a POP design but that has nothing to do with the hardware compatibility policies by Amiga Inc. for AmigaOS4, period.
2. Eyetech, Elbox, Matay and Merlancia Industries are all making or planning to make AmigaOS4 compatible hardware. The statement claims that *noone* is doing so which is simply one big lie.
Furthermore, the petition website sais:
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AmigaOS users will have their hardware and hardware vendor options unnecessarily restricted.
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Why would it be more restrictive to the users hardware options when this license enables *any* PPC hardware manufacturer/distributors to get AmigaOS4 support instead of just POP based hardware?
Also:
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AmigaOS and its users have already lost two significant hardware options only because of this policy.
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FUD! Amiga Inc. had support from the previously mentioned Amiga specific hardware manufacturers before this license came along while they have *never* had support from bPlan or the Barbie developer. The license hasn't affected the situation for the AmigaOS users at all.
I could go on like forever but unfortunately I don't have the time for it so, this will have to do for now... |
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