[iyonix-support] Re: ROOL developments
- From: Grahame Parish <grahame.parish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:23:35 +0100
In article <dda2d2724e.jb@xxxxxxxxxx>, jb <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> In message <4e72cec0afgrahame.parish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Grahame Parish
> <grahame.parish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I may have misunderstood what is happening here, but could someone
> > (John?) please clear up a point that has been worrying me since I saw
> > the recent ROOL announcement.
> >
> > I seem to remember seeing that from 5.12 onwards RISC OS upgrades will
> > be chargeable. The terms of the ROOL licence imply that all changes
> > should be fed back into the core product. Does that mean that any
> > enhancements to the OS brought about be external developers will be
> > chargeable upgrades for end users? What will the expected OS base
> > version be for people using non-ROM based enhancements? Or is the
> > upgrade charge going to be removed?
> >
> As previouslu announced, those wishing to upgrade to 512 will pay an
> upgrade charge. This is a sort of 'step in time', i.e. it is not
> expected that rom 513, for example, will require an additional charge.
> There may be a future point beyond 512 when a further charge might be
> levied, but there are no plans to do so at present.
Excellent. I did assume that I hadn't picked up the entire picture.
> As for enhancements, if those feeding back enhancements require features
> of later roms, then that will be what is required. If the enhancements
> fed back are adequately backward compatible, then an updated rom will
> not (obviously) be required. However in that case the enhanced 'bits'
> would need to be soft loaded.
I hope this means that there will be controlled releases of a new ROM
image to distribute the latest enhancements once there are enough to make
it worthwhile.
> I hope this helps to improve understanding?
Thanks John - much clearer now.
Grahame (less confused). :)
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