[Rant] Open letter to Fleecy Moss and Amiga, Inc. | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Mar-2003 15:16 GMT by Seehund | 83 comments View flat View list |
I sent Amiga, Inc. and Fleecy Moss an open letter in response to his statements on AmigaWorld.net and in Total Amiga Magazine about the hardware market restrictions imposed on AmigaOS. You can read it here.
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Posted by Seehund on 18-Mar-2003 16:20 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (Ben): > IMHO as much as possible needs to be done to stop piracy (not stop you, but stop
> the pirates) especially to get those crucial early sales going.
The product to be sold is AmigaOS, and I feel that making sales of that dependent on the simultaneous sales of a particular motherboard, and only when that motherboard is sold via a particular distributor, is a surefire way to *prevent* sales of AmigaOS. In a dream world the presented plan would stop pirate copies from running on e.g. "normal" Terons sold by anyone (but it won't), i.e. 0% piracy, but at the same time it means 0% sales of AmigaOS for that hardware base/market. Paying users are stopped, not pirates. A USB dongle or whatever (even software based protection) delivered with separately sold copies would be just as efficient.
This is not about piracy. It's about regulation of an unnecessary and artificially created "Amiga hardware market". |
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