[News] Thendic France comment on OS4.0 | ANN.lu |
Posted on 17-Aug-2002 19:55 GMT by cheesegrate | 165 comments View flat View list |
On an ANN thread Bill and Raquel comment on their attitude towareds AmigaOS4 and it's appearance on the pegasos.
"If AmigaOS4.0 is fully finished and running natively on a
PPC we will be happy for Hyperion and Amiga Inc. Undoubtedly, in this community
there will be more than one person who will copy a legally obtained copy
of the operating system onto the Pegasos. How will Amiga Inc. stop this?
We cannot control this and neither can they. If AmigaOS4.0 becomes what
it is claimed to be – great! We will sell a few more Pegasos machines.
Thanks Hyperion! We wish them our best. We have absolutely nothing against
this effort."
Personally I think that no hardware developers who don't licence the amiga
name will pay money for certification to get os4 running on their boards.
However because the pegasos and the amiga one share the same northbridge
and BIOS (atm), it should not be difficult for a developer to port os4 across
to the pegasos. The question is; Will Hyperion and Amiga Inc allow this without
wanting money from Bplan/Thendic France? And does it matter?
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Posted by Seehund on 17-Aug-2002 19:50 GMT | > Will Hyperion and Amiga Inc allow this without wanting money from
> Bplan/Thendic France?
Any instances of AmigaOS running on "unlicensed" hardware unfortunately have to be w4r3zed by definition - it's only to be sold together with "licensed" hardware. AI couldn't demand any money from any hardware vendor though. How could they? "People are running illegal copies of our OS on hardware sold by you. Pay up!" Heh.
AI apparently wanted it this way, only pirates should have the better product - an AmigaOS that runs on more hardware. Paying customers are supposed to be happy with "licensed" hardware only available from "licensed" vendors, which happens to be a rather short list of one item for any forseeable future. 0% paying customers on any other hardware. Good thinking!
Sure Bill/Raquel is right in that in sooner or later (i.e. hours or days after its release), OS4 *will* be cracked, and if necessary have whatever components necessary replaced, to run on e.g. the Pegasos. No "anti-piracy measure" is more secure just because a hardware vendor is supposed to provide it instead of the software vendor.
AI/Hyperion: Port the OS to as much hardware as possible, sell us the OS. If you don't want to do the porting, let someone else do it. Why start clowning around with other people's hardware?
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The compulsory licensing must go: http://www.petitiononline.com/amigaos/
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