Sure, I'd be happy to. Let me start by just saying that while, for many, computing may be simply a hobby; Retrocomputing certainly is for me, and I never owned an Amiga when they were new. For me it's not about reminiscing and longing for the good/bad old days, and wishing for an Amiga revolution, which is highly unlikely, at best, to ever occur.
I suspect strongly that my perspective on the matter of the "future" of the Amiga/Amiga-workalikes is perhaps quite divergent from the views of a lot of old-timers. Computing is my profession. As a systems administrator, I'm currently responsible for administering over 150 physical machines of varying age, from bleeding edge (8-way quad-core AMD Opteron machines with 64GB of RAM, and Sun UltraSparc T2-based machines). I'm right in the middle of building out a new facility in a data center that is serious top-shelf stuff. The website I administer the machines for receives millions of hits per week. There are a *lot* of moving parts, figuratively speaking.
Why explain the above? I believe it lays the framework for a very different perspective on computing, both past and present, that's all. Secondly, I also feel it does provide my opinions with a certain amount of reputableness. If I come across as elitist or simply out to toot my own horn, I offer my sincerest apologies. That's not the intention. Yes, I can sometimes be arrogant. Yes, I call it like I see it, sometimes even when it's not genuinely necessary. Fundamentally, I'm a very reasonable person, and I'm sure I could have an entirely reasonable and civil conversation with anyone here on the forums.
Anyways, bloodlines' comments are often factually false. If you really need me to, I will go off and cite specific examples, but some of them are so far off the mark that they should be self-evident to anyone with some semblance of clue. I'd urge you to simply re-read some of his comments (both in this thread and others) and come to your own conclusions. My opinion is in no way canon
