If Genesi owned the rights to Amiga IP

[IonDeluxe]

Its a pretty valid question.
Genesi says it want to support and help the Amiga and it's community.The community is currently split between Gensi products and Amiga Inc\hyperion\eyetech products.
Division in the Amiga comunity at this point is detrimental to the future of the Amiga.
Genesi has the ability to get its Morphos machine lisenced as an "official amiga"This would help greatly in removing this divide and hence help ensure the future of the amiga.It would also give us the users bigger and better choice in which way we wanted to go.

So Genesi states it wants to help and support Amiga and its comunity, and getting thier machine liscened would help achieve that, then why don't they do it?

They could still provide thier morphos only machine, and give the users us the best of both worlds by having a machine that will run os4 and morphos from Genesi.

The question remains.

[IonDeluxe]

Well this does answer my question bbrv.

We have our own "brand" now. We want to promote this and this is our #1 focus.

The Genesi product is not an Amiga...it is a seperate product with a seperat OS that just happens to share some capabilities of the Amiga.

Bill wanted $20/unit license fee and a $100,000 up front payment, plus a dongle and we had to do all the work! We said forget it and the rest is history.

This does not seem excessive, the user ends up paying for it in the end anyway and if the consumer wanted a Genesi branded amiga I am sure they would pay for it.

When OS4 is done we can analyse the situation then, but our inclination is that we do not have the time to do this. Hyperion can do it if they want to. They will need an installed base of users to sell their product. The Pegasos "Community" could be a potential market for them.

This I don't think I get completely.Why would hyperion enter the hardware market?Or are you saying they might alter the OS4 software for use without a dongle?
Are you also saying that you may change your stance on this issue in the future?

One last question I have is: Why dont you promote your product as heavily on the Mac\linux user forums as you do in the Amiga forums?They have alot more users and one would think from this that they would have many more prospective customers to offer than Amiga.

[IonDeluxe]

@stix
I would like to see that too.I would like Genesi to have an AmigOne product.
@kennyr
Does not matter if you like it or not, AmigaOne is an Amiga. Just because it has changed hardware does not make it less so.It has the trademarks the IP and the copyrights, and\or the lisences required.

Using your reasoning a Mac is no longer a Mac, it is nothing like the classic Mac's.