[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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MorphOS, the Pegasos, and other PPC Operating Systems and Platforms : Comment 64 of 137 | ANN.lu |
Posted by strobe on 22-Oct-2002 21:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 62 (Alkis Tsapanidis): I agree with Alkis with the caveat that if they allowed AmigaOS 4 to run on whatever hardware could run it (like Windows) they could implement a simple form of registration which was as unobtrusive as possible.
This is in essence what bPlan is talking about when they suggest using a machine's ID. This is no different than some piracy protections which use a machine's MAC address.
Some shareware titles use a registration system based on polynomials which isn't very obtrusive. This system doesn't even use some hardware-derived ID. All you have to do is send your registration to the company (like a web form) when you want to update your software. It's not spyware, you can do the process over the phone if you like.
The problem is Hyperion and the Amiga partners have decided they aren't going to sell AmigaOS unless the hardware originally came with a special licence and some kind of firmware protection scheme which is extremely obtrusive and forces the hardware companies to partner with Amiga. I mean WTF? |
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