> If you want a port of, say, Heretic II, you don't send a free Amiga to Activision. You obtain a licence. What's so strange about this concept?
What is strange with this concept is that normally, mainboard manufacturers don't have to purchase permission for running an OS. The user purchases the OS and a mainboard and that's the end of it. It's a fair situation, with mutual benefits: both have their development costs, the OS manufaturer sells the OS software, and the mainboard manufacturer sells mainboards, everybody wins. Not exactly rocket science, is it ?
A license requirement on top of the OS price looks like a thinly veiled attempt to milk money out of the hardware manufacturer.