| [News] Pegasos G3 600 Mainboard 650 Euros | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 22-Mar-2002 16:28 GMT by Sinan Gürkan | 202 comments
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Sinan Gürkan wrote:
"German shop Veselia is advertising Pegasos Dual G3/G4 mainboard with G3/600 CPU from 650 Euros. They are also advertising AmigaOneG3-SE from 695 Euro.
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| Pegasos G3 600 Mainboard 650 Euros : Comment 159 of 202 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 24-Mar-2002 09:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 156 (Amigans in black):
Why don't you post under your real name?
Or are you afraid of being proved wrong?
Everybody knows that there were negotiations between the MorphOS team and Amiga for use of the Quark kernel.
Everybody also knows that these negotiations didn't go anywhere because of unreasonable demands on the part of the MorphOS team (no source-code access to the kernel, no final say by Amiga etc.).
Again, I repeat: if YOU just paid 4.5 million dollars for the AmigaOS and Amiga trademarks, would YOU be satisfied with anything less? Would you want your OS to run on a kernel you don't have the source-code of? Would you not insist on a final say regarding who works on what part of the OS, what technology goes in and what doesn't? Would you accept that the same kernel would be used in the embedded space targeting traditional Amiga niches such as video-editing and kiosk systems?
I know I wouldn't.
Another dealbreaker was the conflict of interest which resulted from the fact that bPlan produced both hardware (Pegasos) and software (MorphOS).
Somehow Amiga Inc. was expected to believe that bPlan would give equal and non-discriminatory software support to their competitors including Eyetech and Elbox.
This is like expecting Microsoft to provide software support for the Playstation 2!
Amiga and its hardware partners insisted that MorphOS should be owned and developed by an independent legally entity and that additional safeguards should be put in place to ensure that every hardware vendor and not just bPlan would receive the same software support AT THE SAME TIME.
This was not acceptable to the MOS team.
With respect to OS 4: I can assure you that solid progress is being made and that your claims about only 1 full-timer working on it are completely incorrect.
Sure, we have around 30 independent contractors working on various aspects of the system in addition to 3 Hyperion staffers.
But this includes people such as Olaf Barthel, Thomas Richter, the P96 team, Stephan Rupprecht, Jörg Strohmayer, Martin Blom, Massimo "Visualprefs" Tantignone Almos Rajnai etc. etc. (Apologies to the ones I omitted)
(I really should make a list of the developers available, it reads like a "who is who" of the Amiga development community).
Extremely competent and motivated developers with a proven track-record of releasing quality Amiga software.
Then throw in the Hyperion staff and what do you get?
AmigaOS development dream team. |
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