Kay,
I have read your posts and consider you to be a fair and knowledgable person.
The times when I care about your actions at all is when they affect the Amiga or Amiga companies somehow.
Specifically?
I'm a developer and I'm going to be getting a Pegasos for $299, thanks to co-operation between Genesi and Phoenix Developer Consortium (PDC). PDC is like a user group for developers, which I am a member of. R&B really want to get the market kickstarted again. Everyone who works for Genesi is friendly and helpful, something AmigaInc hasn't shown.
Genesi isn't stopping me from running AmigaOS4 on the Pegasos. That would be Eyetech's *protectionist* approach to the Amiga market. You know, you will only be *allowed* to run AmigaOS4 on the hardware supplied by Eyetech. Sounds like a *
ghetto* to me.
This is the complete opposite of what Fleecy talked about when AmigaInc started up after Gateway. Think ''zico spec'.
This situation is NOT fair to the rest of the market, whether you are a hardware company who makes a nice microATX PowerPC based motherboard ..or.. an online retailer or distributer who have to compete with Eyetech. That exclusive deal between Eyetech and AmigaInc would be viewed as a *Conflict of interest* in a true open market.
Eyetech have this belief that everyone who buys an Amiga is a software pirate. They should drop this attitude.
When I used an Amiga (I still have 3, just packed away), I bought all the applications and the upgrades, I really supported the market.
I spent over $3500 on Amiga hardware & software, this was between Gateway ownership and the current regime. I really believed that the Amiga would return under new ownership, but I feel I made a mistake then.
As for Genesi Pegasos.. I think $299 is a fair price for a developer board. :-D
I strongly believe that anyone who buys an AmigaONE in this current market situation is going to get burned like I was a few years ago.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not Anti-amigaInc/Eyetech/Hyperion..
I just don't like how business operates in this market. I want change. I demand change.The
companies that operate business how I want it will get my support.