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Posted on 19-Feb-2003 22:38 GMT by Whatever (Edited on 2003-02-20 14:16:56 GMT by Christophe Decanini)86 comments
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Amiga-News.de interviewing Ben Hermans : Comment 65 of 86ANN.lu
Posted by Daniel Miller on 21-Feb-2003 01:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 60 (Don Cox):
Don Cox typed:

> It was different. AInc wanted the OS development and the hardware
> development done by separate companies, and BPlan was not prepared to
> split into two companies. The reason AInc wanted this was so that one
> hardware platform should not be favoured over another.

I don't know about that. This bit of history always stirs up emotions for many of us people who keep up with this stuff. I personally find it galling that Amiga Inc. would say to the people who are delivering the elusive Amiga-compatible PPC OS "break up your company and then we'll talk." I mean, what the $#%k. This nickel and dime, all talk no action, Snoqualmie marketing firm wants to set these outrageous conditions to the people who are not only delivering the hardware but the software too?! It also looks like a divide-and-conquer tactic. They wanted to isolate Ralph and make him hand over all his hard work. But bPlan hung together and look at them now, at the beginning of what god willing will be outrageous success.

As for Ben's interview: well, he said it nicely enough but it is all still just words. Where is the public demo, to make us believe there is anything behind those words? MorphOS was demonstrated publically in, yeesh, Fall 2001. People could go to any of a dozen shows to try MorphOS and Pegasos. Contrast that with the Teron boards Eyetech sells, and OS4 which is a collection of marketing announcements in search of a product. So I say nice interview Ben. Too bad you can't just load up the interview on an Amiga One and make it run Amiga software.

I would ask about Hermans' statement that he has all the Amiga OS software in a central repository. I clearly recall the dispute with H&P who own a lot of the work that constitutes OS 3.5 and OS 3.9. I don't think Hyperion has access to that, correct me if I am wrong.
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