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Posted on 15-Dec-2001 23:53 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä63 comments
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comp.sys.amiga.morphos newsgroup to be established? : Comment 11 of 63ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 16-Dec-2001 10:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Bill Hoggett):
Legitimate views, but don't you all just find this a bit ironic. Here we have an AmigaOS compatible PowerPC operating system, already released in beta and almost shipping (not just in theory, but the betas make this one so much different from any past attempts). A brand new machine for it is available soon as well, people have already seen it running as far as I know.
Granted, future software for it may not be compatible, but then that was always (or at least has been for a long time) a given. We have to move forward. Finally we have this machine that does all the stuff many of us have dreamed of, runs our old Amiga software and provides a path forward. A complete rewrite offering possibly a clean break, and is already available in beta, not just in the minds of some slick executives and vague announcements.
We have been promised this stuff by many a company since Commodore. We have waited for it, dreamed for it, fought many verbal battles for it. Many companies have died for it. And finally, it is here. Or, had it been called an Amiga, it would be here and we would be drooling over it. But alas, they don't have the trademark and hence for a whole lot of people they mean nothing.
Instead, these people are betting on another company with a very mixed record and no visible proof of shipping anything spectacular anytime soon. But they have something the other people don't, they bought the Amiga name.
I'm not a MorphOS fan nor an Amiga Inc. fan really. At the moment I'm not really interested in either one, but if I'd have to pick one, I'd be more inclined to follow the actions of the latter. My emotions are attached to the Amiga name. But from a technologial and believability standpoint, MorphOS would win any day (for now, at least).
And not only is that ironic in my opinion, it is also sad. We have, I know I have to some extent, become so attached to the Amiga name that some of would go to any length to defend whatever it is that Amiga Inc. does - no matter if it is of any quality or importance, no matter if somebody else is already doing it or does it better... we keep following the Amiga name.
Such is the power of brands. No wonder books like No Logo do so well.
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