![]() it was also piracy that made the amiga in the first place, 95% of amiga users i ever met bought the machines because pirating games was so easy. More users means more software being produced, which provides more reasons to use the os. Piracy increases userbase, microsoft didnt get where they are today without a huge amount of piracy boosting their userbase. Many people would be willing to buy a cheap used ppc mac for trying amigaos. There is no cheap route of entry into the AmigaOS market, i know many people who would happily try amigaos, but won’t stump up for a specific machine to run it exclusively. They won’t allow amigaos to run on anything but specifically designed PPC machines with custom firmware, this is meant to prevent piracy… What it really means is: The people running Amiga will never see any success… Unfortunately Amiga ignored me on that proposal. ![]() I don’t have to wait for Apple to pay, I can pay, and be a reseller of ibook/OS4 packages to make my money back. But an interested 3rd party can if he wants to. Of course Sony would not want to do that. Such as, Hyperion who have the OS software code, want to be paid for their programmers’ time and effort to port to this hardware.Īnd the hardware manufacturer is not required to be the one doing anything. If you do somehow manage to obtain this mythical license, now you are allowed to participate in other aspects of the Amiga platform situation. license, nothing is allowed to happen, so why bother. Amiga Inc’s licensing terms appear to be related to permitting it or not. I remember reading that, in Amiga Inc’s licensing terms, hardware manufactures have to pay for the porting costs of OS 4 if they want to run it on their platform.
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