Rogue wrote:
Your post contradicts itself completely. The first paragraph says that you cannot get it separately from hardware, while the second says you can buy it for CSPPC's.
I think you're splitting hairs now. The CSPPC version is as stated the only exception from the rule. I don't think ancient Amiga hardware has much bearing on all this. People already own Amigas and PPC accelerator boards, it would have been funny to see anyone trying to justify a licensing/bundling/dongling requirement that would make people have to go out and buy another CSPPC... "You aren't sure that the one who sold you that old board will give you support, we can't sell you AmigaOS!"
*Any* OS is targeted at a specifc set of hardware. Even Linux. You may succeed in porting it to another platform, but don't pretend that this will happen automatically.
Sorry? I don't see anyone pretending anything like that. I really think that everyone is aware of those obvious and relevant technical issues.
AmigaOS 4.0 is currently being targeted at Teron boards and CSPPC-equipped Amigas. The restrictions I and others are talking about are that customers aren't allowed to buy a Teron board from anyone they like, and that any other hardware which future versions of AmigaOS might run on will have its market restricted in the same way. A hypothetical "someone" must get a license for a (legal) port to such hardware to happen in the first place, and even if that happens AmigaOS users would still only be allowed to buy their hardware from that "someone".
These are the obstacles, shortcomings and restrictions that IMO could be avoided, in contrast to the mentioned real technical issues of porting an OS to a certain piece of hardware.
