[Rant] Open letter to Fleecy Moss and Amiga, Inc. | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Mar-2003 15:16 GMT by Seehund | 83 comments View flat View list |
I sent Amiga, Inc. and Fleecy Moss an open letter in response to his statements on AmigaWorld.net and in Total Amiga Magazine about the hardware market restrictions imposed on AmigaOS. You can read it here.
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Posted by Seehund on 19-Mar-2003 12:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 23 (Anonymous): > Why are you talking if you don't have a clue ? Fact is, the Amiga market
> cannot survive without HW sales.
Hardware is not part of the "Amiga" market. There are no more Amigas. The product to be sold is AmigaOS, which is to run on third party hardware. You simply can't have missed this. The purpose of AmigaOS should not be to subsidise selected third party hardware distributors on our and AmigaOS's expense.
> And it is not competitive against the pc resales market.
No kidding!
Then it must be a great idea to lock AmigaOS to only an artificially created small subset of the market for any given piece of PPC hardware! :P
> And, guess why even Apple (not a small one) killed their clones? They are
> making profit again since then.
Amazing. This keeps coming up after all this time.
http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk/faq.html#7
> So please, stop this ... finally its a simple business descision which has to
> be accepted...or switch to another platform, please!
I happen to be pretty fond of AmigaOS... But as you say, people are free to choose another OS. It's called voting with your wallet. If you see that a business plan inevitably will make people "vote" *AGAINST* your product with their wallets, then you obviously need to revise that business plan. Preferrably BEFORE launching the faulty business plan! I fear that AmigaOS won't have that many more chances of resuscitation after this, before it's ultimately declared dead one final time.
> I'd understand if the supply chain would break down and Amiga's won't be
> available - but this will happen if the involved companies aren't able to make
> money
Ah, another reason for not exclusively limiting AmigaOS to only third party hardware from a specific maker and distributor. AmigaOS should not be made dependent on whether Eyetech or whoever makes money or not on selling third party hardware to a pathetic "Amiga market" construction.
> (tell me, why isn't morhos available for anything else than Pegasos, yet?
One reason is of course that, unlike AInc/Hyperion, Genesi actually CAN be compared with Apple. They sell hardware of their own as (probably) their main source of income. If this is wise or not remains to be seen. (This doesn't contradict that they *also* want MorphOS running as widely spread as possible, if we for example are to believe that it'll be available for free for PPC Amigas, not to mention STBs and the Mac port you mentioned... If they can keep their own hardware competitive I guess they expect to sell both hard- and software.) |
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