[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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Comment 1 | Seehund | | 17-Aug-2002 19:50 GMT |
Comment 2 | cOrpse | | 17-Aug-2002 20:02 GMT |
Comment 3 | dakang | | 17-Aug-2002 20:46 GMT |
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Posted by Frodon on 17-Aug-2002 20:50 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (cOrpse): Hello,
cOrpse said:
"I doubt its hard to get licenses , You probably just have to ask amiga and supply hardware and tech docs so it can be *ported* . It isn't something to cry about."
The problem is not really here but here:
"For hardware which is not capable of being used in conjunction with Amiga WB 3.1 (such as the AmigaOne) we will require, as part of the licence conditions, that a copy of Amiga OS is purchased with all boards sold that are capable of running it." (Source: Original license terms text)
So this apply to the Pegasos, and that's mean no freedom for the customer to really decide what they can have with their computer. What about people that want an AmigaOne or a Pegasos just to run Linux (e.g: The Linux PPC community) ?? They don't care about AmigaOS 4 and so they don't want to purchase it.
That's why Thendic/BPlan or any other hardware makers who doesn't just target the Amiga market but also Linux market or any other PPC OS market can't really be interested by such a license because lot of Linux users that were interested by the computer will not be interested anymore because they don't want to pay for AmigaOS 4 and they just want the hardware + Linux and nothing else.
Maybe some resellers that are interested to sell the Pegasos or any other POP based platform with AmigaOS 4 can get a license and then have an OS 4 version for the hardware and then sell it with OS 4. But the hardware makers or distributors can't force ressellers to sell the hardware with OS 4 even if there are other OSes in addition. Because this remove the complete freedom of OS choice for customers.
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