| [News] Explanations from Fleecy, part 3 | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 01-Apr-2001 13:11 GMT by Christian Kemp | 63 comments
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Fleecy writes: AmigaOS4.0 will be launched in the summer, with 4.2 and 4.5 coming out at six month intervals. OS5 will be late next year.
He adds:
People have buried the Amiga more times than squirrels bury acorns, and you know what, it keeps on growing back. Beware the naysayers, for they have their own agendas.
In reply to a quote which says Ralph Schimdt (MorphOS) says there Amiga Inc has a lot of illusions...BPlan won`t run AmigaOS4...it will run MorphOS, he answers:
Amiga Inc has an agreement with bPlan to build an AmigaOne. AmigaOne computers run Amiga Inc software. Whatever else is run on it is nothing to do with us, unless it infringes our copyrights or
IP.
Finally, he says:
I have spent hours a day trying to bring all the Amiga developers together but it seems there is just too much hatred. In the end there can only be one AmigaOS, and one Amiga Inc company moving it forwards. Amiga has retaken control, is working directly with many contractors and looks forwards to all working with us to make a better Amiga in the future..
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| Posted by Ralph Schmidt on 01-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (Darrin):
I actually said that MorphOS will run on the BPlan system.
I haven't mentioned AmigaOS(TM) 4.0/5.0...up to this point nobody
has seen an AmigaOS(TM) 4.0/DE working with/without AmigaHW(TM).
BPlan needs something for the release which satisfies most
of their amiga(TM) customers and this OS will be MorphOS, Linux
and hopefully also QNX.
BPlan doesn't need an OS which *may* run next year.
Furthermore we also asked Eyetech through several channels
if they want us to support their HW(get the HW specs).
We got no reply either for obvious reasons because they
have chosen "their" side of the fence.
Beyond that we were threatened legally in an email by
Fleecy Moss in february. That was a major mistake.
Not to mention certain "informations" to dealers by
their "Premium" Partners if they carry MorphOS they
won't be delivered anymore.
Unlike others we haven't threatened Amiga(TM) Inc. about
anything besides being a threat by having the product
they would like to have but can't control themselves.
We presented our product to them in December on the WOA.
They liked it and already announced to certain developers
that they want MorphOS as AmigaOS(TM) 4.0 in December/January.
This "decision" was overruled by the backdoor politics
of 2 companies a month later as they couldn't deal with
loosing their influence.
As we also develop the suited PPC HW we thought
it would be obvious for Amiga(TM) Inc. what would be the
ideal solution for this market.
This was obviously not understood and under this condition
i'm a bit surprised how somebody has the illusion that
they will be actively supported from us.
You don't threat somebody legally from which you wanna
have support from. That's common sense to me.
The whole situation is sad for the amiga(TM) users, developers
and the market itself.
We think we did all to avoid it as we *really* tried to reach
an agreement between November and February.
Too bad that failed when Amiga(TM) Inc. made a business decision
they think is "best" for "them".
We think it was an extremely bad decision for several
reasons...
o technical implementation
o time to market.
o developer acceptance
o business *reality*.
When Amiga(TM) Inc. says that we decline to "join" them
with 4.0/5.0 projects they silently ignore the real issues
here.
Such a sentence means nothing without the meaning of "join"
to do "what" under "which" conditions.
What "plan" Mr. Moss presented us end februar to get us "involved"
was a technical joke. It would have resulted into abandoning our
working framework for "their" project.
Port AmigaOS(TM)/MorphOS OS modules to their chosen WarpOS base
which wouldn't have been suited at all for this design. Then we
should help them writing drivers and all that on somebody else
financing but not them.
And the final issue was that they then own the result.
That basicly sums up what was presented to us.
Sounds like a Timothy Rue conspiracy plot...doesn't it ?:-)
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AROS and MorphOS already agreed on a mutual partnership
some weeks ago.
Further SW and HW announcements will follow soon. |
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