New Poll: Do you want OS4 on Pegasos

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What was your purpose with these polls? And what do you think, how will it succeed?

If you wanted to know, if current Pegasos owners want OS4 on their machines, then you will fail. I presume a serious degree of "Do you want OS4 on pegasos?" NO answers will come from actual AmigaONE owners who have emotional bias towards the Pegasos as a platform.

The same goes, in an even higher degree for your question "What do you think should happen to get OS4 on Pegasos?". Do you think AmigaONE owners will self restraing themselves and not vote "Genesi Should obtain AmigaOne certification as it is" but "Amiga Inc. should drop the dongle and\or relax the lisencing fees"?

Another issue, someone mentioned " If the peg2 comes out, then consider it if the manufacturer is willing to put in the proper support infrastructure to pass the licence requirements."

Excuse me, what are the licence requirements? We have absolutely no knowledge about it, so we cannot judge about it. Those which were publicly available ages ago were such, that not even the current AmigaONE matches the requirements.

The third problem, you'd like us to decide on something which we know very little about. I'll definitely wait the release, or at least a decent demo of OS4 with my answer. (As I have a blizzppc and a pegasos too, I can wait)

The fourth problem is, why can't the poll be on Amiga.org?

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Another matter, if it wasn't your, but - let's say - Amiga Inc's or Hyperion's poll on how many would like to see OS4 on the Pegasos I'd vote in an instant with YES. But it's not the case.

(Or Genesi's "How many are out there wanting to cover the extra cost the licencing means for Genesi AND buying OS4 in addition" to which my answer is a definite NO)

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I know that it's strict business secret, but may we know what were the licensing terms Eyetech could and Genesi couldn't accept? It's told, that it's the same for everyone. I'm just curious, but not expecting an answer. :-)

And what are the expectations a board must conform to in order to be called AmigaONE? Were those changed as AmigaONE is an AmigaONE, despite that it has neither DE nor OS4?

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Stick to a selected few, that would IMHO be better.

That's why Amiga set a standard (Zico?) before all the hassle begun. They have also set a set of rules of which describe when can a machine be called AmigaONE.

The Pegasos not matched the criteria, the planned AmigaONE (the old Eyetech/Escena design) was a perfect match. Never the less, that AmigaONE remained that - a plan.

Whatever, Amiga Inc is free to say YES and NO's. They hold the IP. I'm just interested in the policy/licensing/etc. changes occured since.

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And the original licensing terms of course :-) I know, it's secret, but you know the human curiosity :-)

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The Peg is the only one that would have been "Zico" ....

No. The original Zico spec required 4 PCI slots, the Pegasos has 3 AFAIR. However, now neither the Pegasos nor the current AmigaONE matches the Zico criterias.