A-EON Technology acquires OctaMED

[eliyahu]

Awesome news. Keep it up, A-Eon!

Now if only they could buy Hyperion and Amiga, Inc's assets

+100000000000000000000000000000000000000. :hammer:

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

I don't really understand the anger over A-EON not porting software it owns to MorphOS and AROS. That's like expecting Ford to start making accessories and parts for Toyota owners. They are under no obligation to do so and have a business of their own to run.

It would be nice if they did, but I don't begrudge them for not doing so.

neither do i, but i'd love to run octamed in an amiga environment on my laptop. so for that (at least without emulation) means a powerbook with MOS or a PC with AROS. so, being selfish, i'd kinda like to have the option.

but it's up to them. the priority for me is to get it up and running on my AOS4 machines since they're nearest the keyboard.


-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

And if I said the only way I will provide Finalwriter for aos4 is if aos4 users pay for both the development and then a copy how would I look?

i don't care. me wanty! take my money! :laugh1:

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

I have talked about Aros 68k and general Aros/MorphOS compared to AmigaOS

i thought AROS 68K was OS3 binary-compatible, yes? isn't that the big selling-point there? so since A-EON are committed to OS3/68K, you should be fine.

@thread

regardless of whether or not the updated octamed is native to AROS/MOS, the fact that A-EON is committed to the classic 68K amigas should mean -- since those platforms have 68K compatibility at one level or another -- that users of AROS/MOS will be able to enjoy the updated software either way. can't people be happy that development is picking up again at all?

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

it looks like trying to achieve immediate sales arguments instead of far sighted strategy that a conscious consumer might be satisfied upon.

i respectfully disagree.

-- eliyahu