12 April 2017, 22:28 | #1 |
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Interesting if true, especially the joint part (between Hyperion and Individual Computers) and classic support. Do we have a big 3 (Hyperion, A-Eon, Individual) now or just more legal entanglements when one goes bankrupt and legal hurdles for everyone else. Then again, Hyperion has money to spend after they were declared bankrupt just a few years ago. We will have to see what these fine ethics and PR companies have to say about the acquisition and their new relationships in a new episode of As the Amigaworld Turns (over in its grave).
Edit: Hmm, I don't see any discussions on other forums. Last edited by matthey; 12 April 2017 at 23:17. |
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this has been en course since some time. actually since mntmn and vampire rtg implementation broughtup licensing questions and both hyperion and incdividual computers came into the game with an attempt of intermediation. you can rerfer to a thread on a1k if you read german, otherwise thor (thomas richter) might offer some further insight, as he seems to have been involved in the deals:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread....83#post1062883 what i dont understand is how the same thing can be sold to two independant parties at one tome, except they joined an agreement to afford it. we will se how this unrolls in practice. however if the licensing will become unbearable for community projects an open alternative might become even more relevant. |
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this is great news as Jens and Hyperion are producing REAL products we can buy and use today unlike amiga.com..this guarantees further development
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The question isn't whether they have "real" products but rather whether they have real products worth buying. This highly depends on affordability and most Amiga users are choosing UAE and AROS over their products. Manufacturing a few hundred hardware products is ludicrous. |
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I also own OS4.1 hardware and use AmigaOS4.1 FE every single day and know ALOT of people that do as well. Lots of developments in both classic and OS4 camps which shows that there are many amigans still using real hardware out there and for those that like to emulate then UAE and AROS are free alternatives so everyone is happy Last edited by klx300r; 13 April 2017 at 03:08. |
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13 April 2017, 00:11 | #7 |
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bad news. now you have to pay video driver to use your graphic card on Amiga
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13 April 2017, 00:41 | #8 |
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This cannot be good news for the Vampire, why would Jens pay for something and allow the competition to use it with their products which are in direct competition with his own?
This should have been given to the community and open sourced. Obviously the authors have been lured by money (can't blame them for that), i'm not sure how much has been paid for it but surely the Amiga scene should have been given the opportunity to crowd fund it or something before it was sold to private companies? |
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It's a modular approach to bleeding the classes (object oriented marketing). Get your enhancement disk with drivers today, after you buy the overpriced hardware and then the overpriced AmigaOS . |
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he doesnt generate enough profit anymore.
so he found an affiliate to share the costs when he starts to sue his competitiors. #1) ridiculous thing - it was close to impossible to contact former owners, now they lists their email and want a comment. F*** Y** anyone ? #2) what about the attempt to free CyberGraphX ? havnt heard anything since month, once the author was here. Last edited by emufan; 13 April 2017 at 01:33. |
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Well what about this perspective, everyone who needs the P96 drivers for the cards they own already have them. Say Picasso96 3.0 comes out and people want it for their Spectrums, Merlins, Retinas and so forth-well that might cost some money.
But if Jens adds a GFX chip to an ACA or the A1200 reloaded and he includes the driver, no problem there. Vampire guys have stated that they feel they did not infringe on the copyrights and even tried to pay for the license but there were no takers-no one wanted their money. Nothing changes here for all the stuff that's already out there (old versions). I imagine the Vampire team will still produce their P96 2.x drivers for their future cards one way or another. And the Vampire team's position at least what some of their key members stated to the effect of "Some guy wrote the driver for us, anyone can sue him if they want." Now imagine the situation where Jens includes the GFX chip on the ACA or A1200 reloaded but it doesn't work unless you buy the driver separately. Or Jens sues the Vampire team. I don't know that either of these outcomes are likely to happen, lets just wait and see. |
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he chooses Hyperion as strategic partner - whose product is AmigaOS4 -
for a software dedicated to classic 3.x system - Kim Jong-un finaly arrived in amiga-La-La-land |
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i see nothin good or cheap from this deal
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<irony> yeah, it really broke my heart, when I realiszed it was an april's hoax. </irony>
I only can underline what kev said :/ |
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as allways, sit & wait, until the big players tell us stupid consumers what we have to do.
and think of the orphans, erm, children: [ Show youtube player ] |
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