[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 DaveW on 18-Aug-2002 08:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (Frodon): Sorry Frodon but you have fallen into the trap that Buck has fallen
into trying to justify this vocal political campaign that he has just
formally embarked apon.
* If you want to buy hardware branded as an Amiga then it has to come
shipped with AmigaOS4.0 ( and be certified ).
* If you want to buy a PPC motherboard from a company that also sells
a PPC based Amiga AND NOT use AmigaOS then it cannot be called an
Amiga and must not be capable of running AmigaOS ( lack of dongle ).
* Knowing the fiscal status of a business partner is business as
usual.
* Licensing and certification is cheap or free ( depending on who you
believe )
* There is nothing wrong with security and copyright protection Im
sure if others on this thread wrote and sold software they would want
it as much as Amiga Inc.
* Sure it will be cracked eventually but average Joe on the Street
will not get access to the cracked copies easily or be capable of
cracking it.
* If you want an Amiga future you gotta support AmigaOS.
As Corpse sayes, nothing to cry about - well it is for anyone who
wants to leverage the Amiga brand without actually selling Amigas and
using this as a platform to attack politically another company. As
much as some might like to deny that they are leveraging the Amiga
brand to sell their own kit and operating systems the facts ( well
documented on here over the last 12 months ) speak for themselves.
Its pretty clear and theres nothing really sinister about the Amiga
deal for licensing, companies that are so verbal in attacking it in
public without substantive evidence to the contrary need to take
a rain check and think maybe their business motive is overrunning
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