[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 Daniel Miller on 18-Aug-2002 11:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (Seehund): Seehund typed:
> 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
That is an improper use of the license by the user but I don't know if you could call it "warez" if they bought the product. It's hard to keep up with the official line on non-OEM version of this promised 4.0. I know Amiga Inc. said it would only be bundled with this and that but IIRC Hyperion keeps talking about a version for the people with existing classic Amigas with PPC acelerators.
At any rate this doesn't matter to the MorphOSians and Pegasos customers because you don't need this promised 4.0, or 3.9 or 3.5 or anything else. So who cares?
> 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.
Yeah really, this is an issue that they have little control over. I think its an overstated insignificant issue, though I understand concerns over piracy.
In my personal opinion this whole "stop piracy with the dongle" thing is just a smokescreen. The OEM nonsense was a pressure tactic to force Thendic-France to the negotiating table. Also in my opinion the tactic was stupid, and has already failed. |
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