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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 Coolio on 19-Jul-2002 15:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 65 (Anonymous):
>My dear chap, just because some 2-bit company (RedHat) has a
>website run by people unable to spell does not make XWindows exist.
Did you miss the part where I said I recognized it's not an official term, but it's used world wide? There are plenty of words circulated which are not officially recognized, yet are used in day to day life. I know you're one of those anal fixated *nix losers who view themselves as someone so high and mighty that if anyone dares to stray from terms prescribed specifically from the *nix demigods, you must immediately rush to the defence of your deity, because it really matters you see. Why don't you get some lense cleaner for your coke bottle thick glasses, shovel the mountain of garbage off your computer desk, and delete some of your vast pr0n and anime collection so you'll have somewhere to download a life or a clue.
>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.
You should search google.com and freshmeat.net for xwindows as well. Maybe you should start a crusade, there are a lot of other people who aren't performing the proper heave offerings and sacrifices to your *nix gods. Even sun.com has search results for the demonic "xwindows," and as you've made clear, it's very important to not use terms which are not officially prescribed by the *nix gods.
>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?
No, that's following your own faulty logic. A jargon name for a commonly used piece of software is much different than Al Gore claiming he invented the internet, and people claiming Windows is the best OS in the world.
>Sorry if you dislike the facts, old chap, but that's your problem not mine.
Your testimonial hardly counts as fact, old boy.
>X is pretty damned stable. Period. Deal with it.
Just keep on telling yourself that, and it's bound to come true. While you're at it, tell yourself that you are handsome and women like you.
>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.
Oh boy! When Linux and Unix weenies pit themselves against each other, it's like watching stamp collectors fight over who has the superior stamp collection. GO BOY, GO!
>However, the FACT still remains that X is bloody stable. That YOU have
>screwed up your machine's OS is hardly X's fault.
See? Here you are blaming the end user again. This is the typical refrain of the linux (and in your case, *nix) fanatic. "If it doesn't work, it's your fault!!!"
>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...
My analogy was about airbags, yours is about speeding. When you talk about XWindows (hehe, hehehehe, ehheheheheh!), speed never comes into the equation. It's like worrying about keeping the speed limit on a tricycle.
>I've been testing out MorphOS right from day 1 of the first available beta.
GOOD! THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU YET!!! MORPHOS FOR ME, MORPHOS FOR YOU, I'LL HAVE A MORPHOS, YOU HAVE ONE TOO! |
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