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I think Asaris has taken that position, although I don't buy his argument. As to what you have said, I think we may disagree on the definition of omniscience as it applies to a divine being.
The definition you may be using is: God can know in advance what I will do, even though free will in the fullest sense of the phrase does exist. God somehow has a "middle knowledge" - that is, knowledge of how free agents will act in any given circumstances.
However the definition that most of the discussion of free will has revolved around is that, simply put, God knows everything that will be.
And in your original post, you referred to determinism, which has been defined as:
The philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs.
So if you are in fact not referring to determinism in the same vein as omniscience, then you have added something valuable to this discussion.
That said, I don't think the alternate definition of omniscience is persuasive, as it's not how most religions would define the fundamental nature of their deity.
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