[News] MorphOS, the Pegasos, and other PPC Operating Systems and Platforms | ANN.lu |
Posted on 22-Oct-2002 07:30 GMT by Jedi | 137 comments View flat View list |
By Thendic-France on MorphOS-News.de :
"In complete cooperation with Mai Logic, we have loaded the bplan OpenFirmware on both the Teron CX and PX. MorphOS runs well on both boards. The Pegasos was developed as a open hardware platform right from the beginning; it uses a BIOS to simplify a port of any operating system to the platform. This OpenFirmware is a well known standard (IEEE1275) and is used worldwide by companies like SUN Microsystems, Apple, Cisco, IBM, Motorola and others. We will support any OS vendor willing to port their software to our platform and will allow them to use our retail channels to sell their products..."
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Posted by samface on 24-Oct-2002 01:35 GMT | Guys, guys, guys... Let's atleast try to pretend that we are civilized, ok?
Here's the deal:
Amiga Incorporated has decided to only support third party products of third parties that is willing to cooperate. They've made their reasons very clear and considering the IP thievery going around lately, who can blame them?
"Sure, of course we will support your hardware that is already bundled with the alternative. I mean, why wouldn't we want to compete against a free and reverse engineered version of our own product?"
C'mon guys, time to get realistic. It isn't about restricting the OS, it's about drawing a line and saying; "this is our platform". Amiga Inc. doesn't own the PPC market, the POP market, the PDA market, the Amiga community nor Amiga magazines. BUT, the trademark and the Amiga platform is per definition theirs. Just like when Commodore created the Amiga market back in those days, Amiga Inc. is trying to recreate it today. They were pretty much ready to support any Amiga hardware out there until the MorphOS team decided to become commercial competitors to the original of their reverse engineered product that is.
Sure, there's nothing wrong with competition. Amiga was actually the competition back then, giving Apple a really hard time. However, you have to realize the difference; Amiga didn't claim to be a next generation Macintosh and neither was our OS compatible despite that we used the same processor family. Amiga was, and still is about something new rather than simply beeing an alternative.
You guys can argue over the details for as long as you want, I don't care. No matter what you say or do; Amiga Inc. will never cooperate with bPlan or Thendic-France as long as they are favoring MorphOS, and MorphOS will never be an "Amiga" OS as long as they try to be AmigaOS. It's simple, really. What's the point in arguing about it? |
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