[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 21:52 GMT | In reply to Comment 7 (Mike Veroukis): Mike Veroukis typed:
> Of course the pegasos hardware makers don't care about AmigaOS4
> licensing since they expect the cracker community to do their
> dirty work for them. Officially AmigaOS won't run on the
> Pegasos but they know people will be getting it cracked off the
> streets.
You know, for almost a year I have been listening to people involved with the Pegasos, and chatted with them in public chats, and kept up with the MorphOSians and *nobody* has ever expressed the sentiment and expectation you refer to. They are just not interested. It is real easy for you to make cynical charges like that, but it just does not match reality.
People who want "OS 4.0" so bad will buy a friggin' Eyetech machine to run it on. It's not even a question. People who buy the Pegasos will have MorphOS which is almost universally seen as extremely efficient and functional. Even the most rabid MorphOS haters for marketing or political reasons or whatever admit this. And MorphOS gets more current development. People aren't going to sacrifice that to run some cracked thing. |
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