[News] AMIGAplus 02/2003 - A wolf in sheep's clothing | ANN.lu |
Posted on 26-Feb-2003 15:18 GMT by Nico Barbat (editor-in-chief AMIGAplus) | 194 comments View flat View list |
Pegasos is here - albeit in low quantities. The
new issue 02/2003 (#133) of AMIGAplus reports about
Pegasos and other topics:
Content: Review of Pegasos & MorphOS, Review of indivision, Review of Subway, Review of Crossfire II, Report about Quake II, Interview with Genesi S.a.r.l., Interview with the Breakpoint-organizers, Review of SuperView 5 1.0, Review of Digital Almanac III 5.0, Coding-workshop: SDL, part 2, Amiga Status Report and much more
AMIGAplus (68 pages, 4c, German) is available via
subscription, via individual order or through the
known Amiga dealer channels for 5,- Euro.
Looking forward: Upcoming AMIGAplus #134
includes the following reports: Reviews of TKR
LAM200E, IBrowse 2.3, VHI Studio 6 and Birdie Shoot,
Compatibility report of MorphOS, Part 1 of the Draco
video workshop and much more.
Contact: http://www.amigaplus.com
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Posted by Seehund on 28-Feb-2003 08:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 89 (Anonymous): Hello Alkemyst,
> So you call for all ways of getting Aos4 on your Peg with out your involment.
It almost sounds as if you think it's somehow the responsibility of a hardware company with an OS of their own to "be involved" in making ANOTHER OS, that can be seen as "competing", run on their hardware?
If a software company wants their OS to run on a piece of hardware, then the software company makes it so, or a third party, the "guys and gals" that some apparently confused people interpreted as a "call to piracy" or something equally absurd - although keep in mind that unless the bundling/dongling/licencing requirement idiocy (the sad "Amiga hardware market" invention) is reconsidered, then there CAN NOT BE a legal port and paying customers.
I don't know how "open" the necessary documentation is in the Pegasos example, but if Genesi wants to sell boards - which they naturally do - they can't make it a "MorphOS only" board, which they haven't. Linux and Open Firmware aren't trade secrets.
We've seen Buck's publicity stunt with the publicly offered Pegasos boards to Hyperion. We've seen Hermans' publicity stunt about "we 'ordered' a board and didn't get one". (Don't take this the wrong way, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with PR, but some people sometimes seem to apply no skepticism whatsoever when reading it or conversely see it all as "evil"...)
All that doesn't matter unless AmigaOS is liberated from compulsory hardware bundling/dongling/licensing. Genesi (or any other hardware company, especially those who have OSes of their own like Genesi and Apple, this currently restricted little sad excuse for a "market" is saturated by the Eyetech monopoly on Teron boards for AmigaOS) won't license AmigaOS to be bundled with dongled hardware. End of story. AmigaOS must *also* be available as separately sold copies for user installation on hardware regardless of who sells the hardware.
You want to be allowed to *BUY* AmigaOS without irrelevant strings attached to any particular hardware dealer? You want AmigaOS to have at least a bit more than a snowball's chance in hell to survive commercially? You know the drill: http://www.petitiononline.com/amigaos |
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