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I concur with CB. If you want to market your product under the Amiga name then you have to follow Amiga, Inc.'s guidlines and policies. There's nothing stoping a manufacturer or retailer from producing or selling a POP board and selling two different versions of it. One under the Amiga name with the specified bios hooks and the same board with a different bios. It's just that the board sold under the Amiga name has to licenced by Amiga, Inc.
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2002, 06:59:49 AM »
Obviously, that can't be right. You can't force someone to licence your product from you.
oh, If the board has a ROM on it that doesn't have the OS4.0 hooks in it, guess what? It's not an Amiga OS capable board as the OS won't boot due to the hooks it's looking for won't be there.
Eyetech can take the A1G3SE board with a plain Power Rom (by Softex, Inc.) and sell it whatever way they want, call it anything but Amiga Whatever. If the put the BIOS with the AOS 4.0 hooks in it, then they have to have a licence from Amiga, Inc. Though, anyone selling an Amiga branded board would have to get the licence first to get access to the special BIOS. It's not like that can just run out and get a copy then sell boards with that special BIOS. They have to get the licence first. That the point they have to want to sell an Amiga branded board.
Admitiedly, the Amiga, Inc. statement about their licencing is abit confusing, if you take it literally.
Not to mention that a two sentance long paragraph is rather insuffient to describe the complexity of thier licencing. As it covers classic Amigas, Classic Amiga PPC addons, new boards, etc.
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2002, 09:00:28 AM »
How do we then certify that said software and hardware are going to work together? People like to know that what they buy is going to work. From the software producers POV they want to make sure that more than a few people buy it only to share it with the rest of the world. I don't think anyone would like Microsoft style software audits.
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2002, 09:02:51 AM »
I believe it's the OS that's claiming to be "Amiga OS compatable" this other companies machine only claims to run it.
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2002, 11:32:18 AM »
yeah, but what would be do in the mean time. Twiddling our thumbs is kinda boring.
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2002, 11:34:04 AM »
Wasn't the Zico spec just for DE?
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2002, 11:40:04 PM »
or certification.
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2002, 11:41:36 PM »
Wow, a troll magnet....
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2002, 06:25:43 AM »
I thought AmigaAnywhere was the DEplayer...