I see some of you missed the point. It's not that Mai is horrible, nor is it a statement directed to the A1. If I had been working for Mai, under the circumstances they are working, I would have done the same thing. What I'm bashing is the industry in general, and it just so happened that Mai picked the perfect time to make an example out of themselves. Also, IBM is as much to blame as Mai is, because they are the ones who made this silly "verification" system.
Mai's goal was/is to attact the attention of bigger fish. While what Mai does will affect this community, that doesn't mean that they were aiming this announcement at our community.
Finally, I will say it again, this is a statement against activities of this likeness performed throughout the computer industry. Go to your local computer store, pick up a random hardware package, and look at all the cute logos printed on the back. It's all the same bogus garbage. Very few of those certificates, verifications, or validations mean squat.
I realize I was a bit hard on Mai, but I also pointed out that there was some validity to their statement. It's just that their P.R. spun in up. Mai is closer to the mainstream that anything Amiga (or MorphOS), so they are caught up in that rat race of certifications.
Last, but not least, I did check with an outside source connected with NOBODY from EITHER side of this stupid AOS/MOS war. I was trying to find out exactly what the verification was all about, and ended up in a circle of goofy IBM propoganda pages. I guess everything I post/say is related to A or M?