AmigaOS + POP/PPC petition official web site

[Seehund]

AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk is finally online!

Here you'll hopefully find all information you could possibly want about the "AmigaOS distribution policies and POP/PPC hardware petition". I hope the background information and FAQ will be especially helpful to clear up some of the confusion surrounding these issues.

If you have not yet signed the petition, then please do so now! Please help spreading the word by linking to AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk. It's not too late to save our favourite OS and a unified POP-based hardware market!

In other news, I have finally managed to get in touch with the PetitionOnline.com administrators. The few abuse and sabotage attempts so far have been removed from the signatory listings. Not that any garbage would ever reach the recipient of our petition, but I understand some thought that it didn't look too good...

[Seehund]

createcoms:

I support Amiga, the company and I think this petition is plain stupid.

http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk/faq.html#2
http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk/faq.html#3
http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk/intro.html

This is not about "supporting Amiga, the company" or not. It's about the survival of AmigaOS and an undivided hardware market.

Come on guys - history has taught us, so why walk blindly?

Exactly! Totally unnecessarily tying an OS to a restricted hardware base is suicidal.

[Seehund]

Seems like all the people they deleted from the list were all those with an opposing view.

There were 8 signatures who posted abusive comments and spoofed other persons. Should obvious morons attempting to disrupt a petition process be on a list of names when they obviously don't endorse what the petition in question says?

I could of course have asked petitiononline.com to keep the garbage, it wouldn't have mattered much since it naturally would be removed when the list is compiled and handed over. It just looked bad, and some people seem to think that they have to agree with other signatories' "optional comments" in addition to the petition which they're signing.

By deleting those signitures, you complely delete any chance of that happening. Now it looks like 370 people who appose the licence compared to the few thousand or so that think its fair.

Huh? What are you talking about?

Im thinking about making a petition that says "The licenece is fine, keep it the way it is".

Well, Amiga Inc. and their "partners" have apparently aready "consulted" those. Heh. :-P

[Seehund]

Akaru:

Have you ever thought how stupid petitions are? they're like a form of facisism, what you have is a bunch of people saying hey we don't like this, and here we are a mob you have to change because of us.

Its completely one sided, what about people who agree with Amiga's policy, shouldn't they're views be heard as well? With a petition, you only hear one side of the story which makes them even less relevant.

Oh. My. God.
This... Well... It defies description.
 :-o

[Seehund]

Damn Portland!
AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk seems to be unreachable ATM, so try the mirror at http://amiga.medicinareberget.studenthem.gu.se:8080/amiga/petition/.