| From: | Ed Dana |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 03:21:25 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Absence of VP in distros, and strategy |
Aaron Optimizer Digulla wrote:
> 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.
Amiga programs will be represented by an icon (or so I hope), the user should be
allowed the choice within that icon, or the ability to have two icons: Portable
Executable or Optimized for Hardware.
Never rob users of choice. Except when their is a good chance of it complicating
their lives. Software lives to make the users life easier, not to control it. :)
My two cents...
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