MorphOS for AmigaONE

[Kent]

This is an excellent idea!  If Pegasos boards aren't going to have OS4 on them any time in the distant future, why not allow the AmigaOne systems to run MorphOS so people can do a real side by side comparison of the two paths.  One problem though, by the time MorphOS is finished for marketing purposes, it would be all for not as OS4 is pending release.  Personally I can't see MorphOS as a finished product until Ambient is running as it should.  That's my view on it though, take it as you will.

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[Kent]

amigaguy wrote:

no licence required

Licence or whatever you want to call it... I thought the problem was that Genesi doesn't want to Agree to the Dongle thing.  They want OS4 to run on their board, but won't aggree to put the dongle thing on their hardware.

OS4 would be good for both Hyperion and Genesi.  Both sides probably know this.  But if Genesis isn't going to Uphold the Copy Protection Scheme for OS4 then why should Hyperion port it?

What if Hyperion had used a Serial Number Scheme instead of a Dongle Scheme for their "Method of Copy Proctection" ??  Do you think that Genesi saying, " Here's a free Peg1 board PLEASE port a version of OS4 that DOESN'T require that Serial # so we can distribute it with our hardware"  is any different then asking for a Dongle Free Version?

AmigaGuy

Actually, Genesi is more than willing to put the Dongle on their boards but they don't want to foot the bill for it is all.  They have offered to let a 3rd party modify the boards for them and sell the redone boards with OS4 legit, but the requirement is that MorphOS needs to be shipped with the modified design.  Since the "dongle" restrictions require no other operating system asside from a chosen Linux package, the 3rd party modified boards won't happen.  Not only that, but I don't think anyone is willing to pay the additional 300+ for 3rd party modifications just so they can have a licensed OS4 on their Pegasos.  Think about it...

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