Just want to clear a few things up, as a lot of the criticisms
here have been addressed by Ben Hermans on ANN aready.
1) Amiga aren't planning to charge for licensing
2) You can only get OS4 for CPPC/BPPC separately. These users are the
only ones that don't need to upgrade their hardware, so this makes
sense.
3) If eyetech produce a linux only version of their board they will
sell OS4 with a ROM upgrade if users decide they want AOS later.
4) There'a nothing stopping bPlan arranging something similar. (The
ROM system might require a board redesign, but if an equally good or
preferable system of copy protection available I'm sure they'd allow
it.)
5) You WON'T have to upgrade the motherboard to upgrade the OS unless
the basic system requirements change.
I personally don't like the whole ROM upgrade thing. You could copy
the rom more easily than you could copy a USB dongle (probably), but
at least it uses fixed addressing so you can't just softkick it like
you could with earlier upgrades - you would have to open the computer
up to do it. A USB dongle would be more
convenient.
