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| Posted on 16-Jul-2002 23:29 GMT by Paul Smith | 71 comments
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If a serious software publisher plans to leave a platform with a huge userbase (surely we're talking in the hundreds of thousands for MacOSX?), then what chance does OS4 have of making it with promotion figures of about 600? (for forum)
Link to OSNews.com article
If nothing else, this proves what what many have been saying for the past 12 months (and openly ridiculed for). The days of binding your software to custom hardware are over.
Surely it is time that the people in charge of AmigaOS acknowledged that the non-mainsteam hardware route was a mistake. I'd bet that a similar promotion scheme for a version of AmigaOS that ran on the majority of the world's computers would have brought a much larger, and possibly commercially viable userbase. I'd also wager that the numbers sold would have been so, that it would have brought more revenue than the current scheme of selling hardware with it.
This is not intended as flamebait. I hope to provoke a discussion on the future of AmigaOS, rather than a flame-fest.
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| Posted by Anonymous on 19-Jul-2002 06:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 58 (Coolio):
>> "Xwindows is vastly unstable"
>XWindows doesn't exist.
Look, if you want to get hung up over semantics, then I suggest you go to http://www.redhat.com and do a search for Xwindows. Now
while you're at it, please go to www.freshmeat.net and search for xwindows. Oh, you're still here? Why not search google for xwindows?
Does it exist in your puny reality now? <<
My dear chap, just because some 2-bit company (RedHat) has a website run by people unable to spell does not make XWindows exist. You may, once you've chilled out a little, pop along to www.x.org and see for yourself - it is the X Window System. It is not XWindows.
Hey, you know what? I spotted websites whch state that Al Gore invented the Internet. I've seen websites claim that Windows is the best OS in teh world. Following your logic they MUST be true, right?
>> >For something which you describe as "vastly unstable", it's bloody stable
>here on hundreds of workstations in daily use.
PREACH IT FROM THE MOUNTAINS, BROTHER! Let's here some more testimonials about the stability of the almighty *nix. That
sure invalidates my argument, yessir! <<
Sorry if you dislike the facts, old chap, but that's your problem not mine.
X is pretty damned stable. Period. Deal with it.
>> >Just because you have screwed up YOUR installation, don't tar all others
>with the same brush.
AHHH, here it is. I'm never disappointed waiting for linux weenies ready and willing to blame everything but linux when linux doesn't
work right. <<
ROTFLMAO!!!
And which Linux weenie would that be, oh clueless troll? Here's a wee hint for you - I loathe and detest Linux. I prefer real Unices to that overhyped pile of droppings.
However, the FACT still remains that X is bloody stable. That YOU have screwed up your machine's OS is hardly X's fault.
>> It's akin to an automobile manufacturer blaming the driver if the airbags happen to go off without warning while driving. "Oh,
just because you screwed up your car..." <<
No, but it IS akin to a car manufacturer refusing to accept responsibility for your crash when it was YOU trying to drive round a 30mph hairpin bend at 120mph in the wet...
>> Seriously, download a life or a clue. Or better yet, download a beta of MorphOS. It kicks ass! <<
I've been testing out MorphOS right from day 1 of the first available beta. Some of us do actually pay attention to what's going on in teh real world, you know - you ought to try it one of these days... You might start by using the correct terms for things, for example... |
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