[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 19-Aug-2002 06:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 42 (Kronos): "The need to setup an distrobution for Pegasos/OS4-bundle aside
the "normal" Pegasos, and that means extra costs, maybe not
much, but still more than it seems to worth for them."
What extra distribution? Putting it on a different shelf? When a package
is shipped the dongle and the OS CDs/manuals are put in with it too?
If the Amiga community and brand is worth so little to them why do they expend
so much effort on trying to undermine Amiga Incs licensing scheme with very
thinly veiled public attacks and campaigns from the minions they manage to brainwash
with half truths?
No. There is a real agenda there that we can only speculate about. My speculation
is that they want people to buy the Pegasos as an Amiga and use MorphOS as the "next gen
Amiga" operating system because it boots first. Else why the TV show? Why the spiel for over a year about
how it *is* the next generation Amiga in all but name? Why leverage the brand in such
a way? Why risk creating two entirely incompatible PPC platforms under the name
"Amiga"?
To me its transparent and pathetic and Im glad Im not sticking around for much longer
( just sufficient to point by point show Bill and Raquel how inane their free advertising is ). |
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