[News] Thendic France comment on OS4.0 | ANN.lu |
Posted on 17-Aug-2002 19:55 GMT by cheesegrate | 165 comments View flat View list |
On an ANN thread Bill and Raquel comment on their attitude towareds AmigaOS4 and it's appearance on the pegasos.
"If AmigaOS4.0 is fully finished and running natively on a
PPC we will be happy for Hyperion and Amiga Inc. Undoubtedly, in this community
there will be more than one person who will copy a legally obtained copy
of the operating system onto the Pegasos. How will Amiga Inc. stop this?
We cannot control this and neither can they. If AmigaOS4.0 becomes what
it is claimed to be – great! We will sell a few more Pegasos machines.
Thanks Hyperion! We wish them our best. We have absolutely nothing against
this effort."
Personally I think that no hardware developers who don't licence the amiga
name will pay money for certification to get os4 running on their boards.
However because the pegasos and the amiga one share the same northbridge
and BIOS (atm), it should not be difficult for a developer to port os4 across
to the pegasos. The question is; Will Hyperion and Amiga Inc allow this without
wanting money from Bplan/Thendic France? And does it matter?
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Posted by Jürgen Lange on 20-Aug-2002 03:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 39 (anonymous): > Oh please - the number of developers actively supporting anything
> commercially viable is an absolute joke. The bottom line for Thendic
> is hardware sales and the remaining members of the Amiga community
> are an easy sell. Countless times people on this site have
> encouraged Thendic and bPlan to OEM OS4 so that they could purchase
> a Pegasos and run a sanctioned copy of the operating system in good
> conscience. But apart from obviously not wanting to detract from
> MorphOS, I'm sure there is a sick sense of satisfaction to be gained
> if piracy prevails. You don't want to pay for or support the brand,
> you just want to cannibalize it.
I think that Amiga Inc. had failed to generate enough interest. Most
developers and the remaining resellers are not interested in their
politics anymore.
Amiga Inc. failed to generate interest for AmigaDE. They never had a
real path to incorporate AmigaDE with AmigaOS. AmigaOS 5? It's vapor
by now.
I think (and always thought) that a finished AmigaDE is a wonderfull
product.
AmigaOS is a wonderfull product, too. I'm using it since 1988. And I'm
still using it on a regular base doing 80% of my job with it (thanks
to Amithlon).
I do not know, when we will see a real product by Amiga Inc.. Can
anyone tell me when AmigaDE will be available? Is there anybody who
can tell me, when AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4 will be available? Or is there
anybody who can tell, when Amithlon 2 will be available?
All these products are not available because of the politics of Amiga
Inc.!
Hey, Mr. Anonymous, Amiga isn't only a brand. Amiga is old hardware,
Amiga is an os, Amiga are a decreasing number of developers and Amiga
are a decreasing number of customers (and btw. Amiga is a group of
fitness studios ;-) ).
Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss have payed a lot of money for the brand.
And they managed to generate some interest for their ideas in the very
beginning but they had made a lot of mistakes:
1. They dropped classic Amiga
2. They didn't develop AmigaDE to a real product.
3. They forgot all about hardware independense
4. They went back to Classic Amiga
5. They had no idea about AmigaOne
6. They never learned how to manage a project
7. They haven't learned about the real world
If they were able to sell a clean and lean product by now I would buy
it (as I've bought the SDK and the Party Pack, - a big mistake).
On the other hand we have Thendic-France having a product. Ok, it
isn't the "real" Amiga (as Amithlon isn't) but it is a product many
Amiga users and developers will like and it is a product which will be
available in the near future.
It isn't possible to cannibalize a brand, it isn't possible to steal
sales (you can't lose what you never have had). Amiga Inc. has the
chance to compete, the only thing they have to do is to offer a
product.
Jürgen |
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