[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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Posted by Bill Hoggett on 08-Nov-2001 20:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 152 (Mekanix): >You forgot MorphOS.
No, I didn't. Mentioning the unmentionable tends to bring out the trolls, though, and I'm too fed up deal with them.
>Actually it is a big deal. The community as it is now is
>hardly big enough to support one OS-development. Remember
>that OS 3.5/3.9 sales almost wasn't big enough to justify
>further development.
You can't be protective for ever. All that happens is that the strain gets weaker and more sickly as time passes. Sometimes a nice deadly plague gets rid of the weaklings, even if that is an analogy that won't go down well with some people.
>Now this community is going to be split 4-ways. That
>would mean that at least one party (either MorphOS
>or AmigaOS 4) will end up as looser and vanish, possible
>both.
Tough. They all had the opportunity to get together and hammer out some common ground, but they've spurned it. Let them reap what they sow.
Actually Amithlon is NOT strengthened by the splits, because Amithlon is ideally suited for 68k programs with x86 modules, which would have allowed for parallel development. However, the Hyperion decision makes hybrid programs a waste of time, and I expect this will generate more x86 only programs rather than less. Like I said, who cares?
>Hyperion/Amiga Inc. have really made a bad business
>decision here.
If they have, they'll suffer for it. Maybe they haven't, and will be immensely successful becoming the new Microsoft or even Apple. I'm past caring, and only intend concentrating on the option best for me. What they do is not my concern. |
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