[Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments View flat View list |
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osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! : Comment 90 of 169 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Janne Sirén on 13-Jun-2002 10:56 GMT | In reply to Comment 89 (Samface): Samface, I will address your concerns in a later post, but could you please, tell we whether or not you agree with my points in post 37:
1) Amiga Inc. requires all hardware capable of running AmigaOS 4.x to be licensed.
2) The licensing can be done by anyone willing to offer adequate support for end-users and providing the hardware for testing (i.e. the manufacturer or a dealer).
3) Amiga Inc. requires AmigaOS 4.x to be sold with all hardware that is capable of running it (i.e. all that are compatible and have the dongle).
4) Their executive update seems to suggest otherwise, but at this time it is unclear whether or not a separate AmigaOS 4.x and hardware dongle could be sold for a licensed piece of hardware. Doing so would certainly alleviate some concerns, not all. I believe 1-3 to be quite clear at this time though.
5) CyberstormPPC and BlizzardPPC are exceptions to 1) and 4).
While it is true we have not seen the actual license, as I said, at least 1, 3 and 5 are very clear in the executive update and 2 has been laid out clearly by Ben Hermans (and we assume to Amiga's benefit!) and 4 is not relevant (to this discussion, it may be relevant otherwise) if and when clearly 1 still stands.
Please tell me if you agree or not. These are, as I see it, basically the interpretations that are the basis of the petition as well. Please address these one by one. Thanks! |
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