| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 14:21:50 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Absence of VP in distros, and strategy |
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:35:37AM +0200, Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez wrote:
> From: Jim Peters <jim@aguazul.demon.co.uk>
>
> >> there should be some way for the OS to _enforce_ the presence
> >> of .00 (VP) binaries in any installation archive. However I don�t
> >> have any way of enforcing this at hand.
>
> > This is all nonsense. It's not an Ami program if it doesn't have
> > VP binaries - it would be an Ami/x86 or Ami/PowerPC program
>
> Then... So what, for the customer? Almost every computer in sight uses a x86
> processor. So this is viable. In fact, it's profitable. So it will happen.
> The solution is centralised control of the distributions, something very
> rare and alienating. Of course, I'm worrying too much. There's a ton of work
> to do to even get near this point. Just about that, two questions:
The solution is pretty simple: Don't include tools to create native
binaries. This way, only a small fraction of people will be able to
create native binaries.