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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 Raquel and Bill on 18-Aug-2002 15:39 GMT | @Lamer
We are not sure you have ever had the chance to visit DCE or sit down and talk to Thomas Dillert, the owner. Raquel and I visited DCE a couple of weeks ago and found Thomas and his company in good shape. The Pegasos production line looks good and his facility is well organized and clean. Aside from Thendic-France/bplan, DCE is doing the same kind of work for Philips and Kyrocera. These are two well-known and successful companies. Thomas has a good organization. It is too bad the difficulties of the past are so often exaggerated and continue until today.
Just to show you how much this matter interests us, we requested on an ANN thread a couple of months ago information and proof from anyone who had had problems with DCE. We had a total of two responses -- one positive and one negative. So much for the “bad reputation…”
Anyway, lets take that a step farther…
If anyone has proof that DCE has improperly accepted or not-returned money or boards for warranty or for whatever other reason because there was a problem with the manufacturing of the board (and not because it was intentionally over clocked, etc.), Thendic-France will rebate the full amount against a Pegasos computer.
We have confidence in DCE and we have confidence in the ability of bplan to organize the production and work with DCE in the future.
@Timothy
We have absolutely nothing against AmigaOS4.0 and Ralph Schmidt today does not either. For at least, the recent past, no official member of the MorphOS team or any Betatester has “flamed” OS4.0 and will not going forward. It is too bad all the different personalities could not work together. You all should note that Ben Herman has stopped making inaccurate and inappropriate statements about MorphOS. We appreciate this very much. Better to let both groups go forward as they will.
@john
Thank you for your email (in both threads). We really appreciate this kind of detailed and thoughtful commentary. Just a couple of things… what is unprofessional about stating the obvious? It is a problem and we have brought attention to the issue frequently. We are certainly not advocating the act, but how can we stop this? We will not try to restrict our Pegasos customers from doing what they want to do with the hardware they have purchased. We all have to admit that the technically oriented community following these boards is very prone to do whatever they want to do with their computers. What would you recommend?
Yes, the applications you describe make you part of the other1% of the computer users referenced. Give us more time to think about your comments and references. If you want to add other issues more specific, please email us directly.
@all
As far as we are concerned there are absolutely no legal problems with MorphOS. You will see that there will not be either. MorphOS is 100% the inspiration and creation of Ralph Schmidt and the MorphOS Development Team. There is too much conjecture and FUD here from people that have no idea what they are talking about.
Finally and probably not for the last time, we are NOT interested in the “amiga” brand. We are interested in applications that run in an amiga environment and we are interested in developers familiar with this environment.
We thank you for your Betatester orders and we thank you for your continued support. In spite of the best efforts of a very vocal minority often seen here, we continue to receive your supportive emails and your expressions of interest.
Sincerely,
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