Is anybody thinking about joining the Rebellion (Pegasos/MOS)?

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Is anybody thinking about joining the Rebellion (Pegasos/MOS)?

Ask me again in February.  I'm just gonna sit this one out until I can compare both options.  I need to see the final products first.

I may decide to go for neither.

Who knows? Who cares? Not me.

-zudo

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ne_one:

Bang on :-)

It's also worth noting that M$ are going several steps further down a much darker road that makes a dongle look like not such a bad thing afterall.

http://www.iscnetwork.com/ISC/Palladium.htm

Put that in your pipe and smoke it ;-)

-zudo

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Hey mips_proc,

You say the dongle is the most flakey form of anti-piracy.  I don't believe that is true. Surely those wheel things that came with monkey island games or entering a word from a certain page of the manual is slightly more flakey..? Or what about those lens things that you hold up to the screen to see two letters in the scrambled mess of pixels? I had a paint program on the spectrum (which also came with a mouse!) that had one of those things.  The thing is it never worked properly and it would take 2-3 attempts to get into the program.  (joke)Please Amiga Inc, drop the dongle thing and use that bloody lens system instead.  Just to piss everyone off a little bit more.(/joke)

It's true that most dongles in the past have been fairly easy to crack, but if a dongle is done right, it can be unbeatable!  Especially if the dongle contains crucial elements of the code so that nothing works without it and also uses a strong ecryption method.

Also, do you know how much cheaper the Linux-Dev version of the boards from Eyetech will cost?  I've had a quick look at the site and I can't find anything.  Is it really much cheaper??? If yes, why hasn't anyone complained?

-zudo

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mips_proc,

Ok, I see what you are getting at now.

If the dongle (am I the only one that thinks thats a silly name?) works, it's going to limit what OS4 will run on. (Is that truly the only limiting factor?)

If it doesn't work (and you are saying it won't) then many people will buy cheaper hardware and get hold of pirated copies of OS4 (!!! bastards !!!) just for kicks.

My thoughts on the price... Maybe Amiga Inc are getting quite a large sum of money per A1 board sold, but hey, they need it if you believe the rumours.  And am I wrong for thinking that OS4/AmigaOne is intended for people who want to get their AmigaOS fix asap, or developers, or people that don't like too much hardware choice?  Everybody else will just have to wait for OS5 if they want to run AmigaOS on a wider list of hardware... or did I miss something?

I'm confused. I'll sleep it off and see whats posted tomorrow.  Thanks in advance for your help.

-zudo

ps. Are you admitting to using pirated software? ;-)