[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 Anonymous on 22-Oct-2002 11:22 GMT | > However, we will not support any kind of software protection (dongle) with our system. Software licenses can be done by the unique machine ID of each Pegasos system, based on OS vendor supplied method (like FlexLM or others).
Unique machine ID? This awakens horrid thoughts on palladium. Youre not going that route with morphos are you?
> Alternatively, we can ship the boards to distributors and they can add a dongle. We still contend this is not the right approach, as this will create a distance between the user and the machine. Experienced computer users will never buy a dongle protected OS or program. We feel that this will create unlicensed copies as the dongle will be hacked and removed.
Probably harder to remove than a simple check if the machine id fits. Unless its really similar to palladium and the os performs that check for every program? I assume it is not? *shiver* |
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