OS/4 OpenLinux

[wawrzon]

Any one seen this yet?

http://www.os4online.com/

Created a bit of a buzz over at AROS-EXEC.

aros guys take it easy for most part. created much more buzz on amigaworld.net:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=37810&forum=17
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=37859&forum=17

with also some threads on amigans, amiga-news.de and some mention on morphzone apparently. most affected seems to be os4 crowd, mostly those who consider them defenders of "amiga" and either have some hopes or usually consider it a threat for the label.

[wawrzon]

Two more weeks.

anubis had never any chance. but the idea was not completely wrong and.. but i shall keep my mouth..

[wawrzon]

I think it affects AmigaOS 4 users more because OS 4 Linux has the same name. If it was called MorphOS Linux, there'd be exactly the same reaction from MorphOS users.

how about to target those people next:
http://www.os4.de/

[wawrzon]

I don't understand these guys. They started out with a product with a name coincidentally similar to an Amiga operating system, but no actual connection. So instead of going on their merry way, now they're capitalizing on the confusion: adding knock-off boing balls, adding hosted AROS to their distro, reselling PPC Macs with MorphOS pre-installed (!), licensing Amiga Forever, (mis)directing users interested in AmigaOS4 to Amiga Inc.

I can't tell if this potential exposure of our preferred family of OSes to non-Amigans is a good thing or not. My inner curmudgeon wishes that these kinds of interlopers would just leave us alone.

apparently the controversy causes unusual traffic on their sites which improves some rankings. who knows. might be all, but might be more to it.