[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 23-Oct-2002 10:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 74 (Seehund): As usual you only see one side - yours.
> The only point of all this is to guarantee a certain share of a market for "new" (new to AmigaOS) hardware, to a limited number of distributors. Currently the number of distributors is one (the one that was "consulted" when all this was decided), and the marketshare is 100%.
Wrong. The point is to know which hardware can be used so it can be assured there are no incompatibilities. That whats the licensing process is about and anyone could apply for their own license for their hardware solution.
> Why would that be better than making the OS run on as much hardware as possible (and/or outsourcing that work) and actually SELLING the OS instead of having it "stolen"?
Because it would be a too big an effort to support any possible hardware.
> The "guaranteed compatibility" and "reviewing the capabilities" excuses are nonsense. You simply do not need to have hardware distributors license their products, modify/supply them with h/w-license mechanisms and become distributors of your software product to achieve this. It's just ridiculous. [...] provider and their product", or "a strict set of Quality Assurance certifications"?
You mix your opinion with obvious untruth. Locking software to one/several specific hardware is common business.
The rest is of your post is utter "nonsense" as well. Next time bring facts and not only your opinion. |
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