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Legal threats? : Comment 554 of 1057 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Bw on 07-Apr-2004 20:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 552 (Fabio Alemagna): That was a reply to this post from Ben Hermans:
"I'm getting a bit tired of these baseless accusations that Hyperion is responsible for stopping Amiga working with the MorphOS team.
Negotations between Amiga and MorphOS have been running for close to a year now.
The fact that they broke down (did they?), cannot be blamed on us.
Sure, we had some concerns and we still do about MorphOS.
1) MorphOS is tied to bPlan at the hip. Ralph Schmidt is a partner in bPlan.
This creates a very obvious conflict of interest because other hardware vendors like Eyetech or Elbox would naturally be very worried that they would not be receiving the same software support than bPlan.
You can't blame them for not wanting to place themselves at the mercy of a competitor.
2) The MorphOS team has repeatedly expressed little interest in games and everything connected with them: 3D, virtual memory etc.
You can't blame us, a games producer, for being worried about that.
This is the last I'm going to say about this."
Seems like a well motivated posting to me. I don't understand what would be amusing? Hyperion had nothing to do with Amiga Inc deciding not to partner with bPlan. Hyperion saw Eyetech, Mai, Elbox (and maybe others who we may not know about) as more important potential partners. So what? |
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