Read more...
From: Domagoj Ozanic 
Subject: Ignored "Free Choice PPC Kernel Petition"
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:59:50 +0100
To: powerup@lists.best.com

I must say now that I give up on trying to inform phase5 about petition. I
sent multiply emails and FAX (thanks to people who helped me with this) and
talked to Ralph Schmitt over IRC.

FAX was sent to phase5, emails were sent to Wolf Dietrich
(wd@ufoo.phase5.de, wd@gf.phase5.de) and Ralph Schmitt on
laire@basis.owl.de.

What I got was *nothing*, I only got answer from Ralph Schmitt on IRC saying
exactly this:

> why don't you call haage that he produces the hw for his products ?..then
> you wouldn't have such problems with your purchases as you get what you
want.

I asked him about the matter of phase5 recognizeing the petition and why not
answering about the same issue :-(

I am very angry now, because it is my obligation to the people who signed
the petition to do whatever I can, so that petition is successfull. I have
no choice but to publish on "Free Choice..." Web page, various Amiga
mailing lists and newsgroups that phase5 is ignoring the petition and 753
people who signed it.

The petition is still alive and I am still receiveing new signs.
URL is http://jagor.srce.hr/~doozanic/

I am pretty much sure that phase5 (Wolf Dietrich) is recognizing the
petition but phase5 is ignoring it.

Now the situation about PPC kernels is much different than it was when
petition was started. Now we have clearly WarpOS as the kernel with the
better support, number of programs, support in AOS3.5 and public opinion on
its side. Also now we have tools to fight forced kernel in flashrom like
BPPCFix and PowerUP emulation in general so I assume that in general the
petition had some effect on the better situation we have now about the
whole problem :-)


--
Domagoj Ozanic (doozanic@public.srce.hr)
WARP - AMIGA Magazine http://islands.zesoi.fer.hr/~dpuljiz/warp/
AMIGA 1200T    |  BPPC 603e/200 MHz     |  34 MB RAM
68LC040/25 MHz |  BVisionPPC/Permedia2  |  Quantum Fireball 4.3 GB
AmigaOS        |  LinuxPPC              |  MacOS