| [News] The COMPLETE civil docket for Thendic Electronics, et al v. Amiga Inc | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 14-Nov-2003 21:02 GMT by samface | 99 comments
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You can find the COMPLETE civil docket for the Thendic Electronics, et al v. Amiga Inc court case here.
These files has been retrieved through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system and has been reproduced as a whole and completely as published in the Case Management/Electronic Case Files system on U.S. District Court Western District of Washington's website.
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| The COMPLETE civil docket for Thendic Electronics, et al v. Amiga Inc : Comment 69 of 99 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by BouncingAyatollah on 16-Nov-2003 07:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 67 (brotheris):
> I love when people use this argument. MOS runs and Warpup, Powerup and MorphOS
> native programs. And there seem to be more and more native programs. But
> interesting point is: which are OS4 programs ? Anyway, after around half year
> of OS4 release, I would expect a OS4 APIs wrapper for MOS (if there will be
> program worth it to create this wrapper).
I am aware of MorphOS native programs - I mentioned them later in my post, however the perceived "value" of MorphOS as an "Amiga clone" presently is running AmigaOS3 only apps (Warpup and PowerUp are still AmigaOS 3 apps). The future value of MorphOS is yet to be seen, a somewhat tenuous predicament for one to be spending their money on it seems, the hope that the AmigaOS3 functionality MAY be extended by way of enough native apps to match AOS4 which is a guaranteed given progression. I mentioned the likelihood of wrappers either way with "If you assume AmigaOS4-native apps get ported to MorphOS native (and vice versa) no particular disparity there."
> QNX, OpenBSD...
These were intended to be included implicitly (though not stated I admit) in the "etc." on BOTH lists, seeing as the hardware is so similar. Again though, how this situation resolves will only be known in the future. It may be that PegasOS runs more OS's but I feel that unlikely given the hardware similarities as I said.
> No AmigaDE yet (or ever if you ask me).
Less likely on the Peg if you ask me, another "more likely guaranteed progression" for the AmigaOne. This was the main point of my post though, which was in response to a question regarding why bbrv has seemingly switched from anti-AmigaDE to pro. Somehow I think he has realised it may be a distinguishing differential between the two platforms hence suddenly it became more "valuable", unless of course this IS just a "drain Amiga of all funds" ploy as others suggest, I don't know about that.
> For me it all comes down to availability and price. I see NOTHING on AOS4
> videos to make me want one. I have to want it more badly than MOS (I see a
> lot of action in this front, many programs ported).I've made my decission and
> will not buy AmigaOne, not for these kind of money. Even if OS4 would be
> released for PegasosII, it would be hard to convince me to buy it. Because
> after OS4 will be released, it will need to a lot of time to mature. I've
> listened and read enough crap about 'you can make first impression once', 'two
> weeks'. I need facts, it's my hobby and my money.
For 100s of thousands of soon to be miffed Atari ST owners it similarly came down to "availability and price". Atari could play the "Available now!" card before the A500 was released, yet what did they do when they realised the impact the A500 was going to have? Aggressive price cutting and bundling of massive amounts of software with the machine in the time they had before the A500 SOFTWARE market gained enough steam to hit them, as incentives to people who were looking at the current details rather than seeing the "bigger future picture".
> Pretty words by salesmen will not sell anything to me.
I feel that comment has succeeded the event itself. I may be wrong however, your money, your choice, as always. This isn't meant to sound attacking btw, it's just that I kind of grit my teeth for people who may have unwittingly "bought the Atari ST".
With all this tit-for-tat bitching crap flying about, the best advice I often see is "wait until both are out, compare them and decide". Sounds good to me. |
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