Merger between AmigaOne and Pegasos dev teams

[Kronos]

@Russ

Hyperion made an offer ?
 :roflmao:  :roflmao:

When should that have happened ?
Before 11/01 when Hyperion wasn't in charge of OS4 ?
Or afterwards when it was allready decided that they would go head-on ?

There were talks between bPlan and AInc in spring 01, but looking how things evolved I can
only congratulate bPlan for refusing to sign a deal.

What ever was offered afterwards, wasn't any more honest than bPlan offering/asking
Hyperion to port games for MorphOS (which also happened at that time).

Also, it is Genesi who are cooperating with AROS,Phoenix or external developers
like Titan or e.p.i.c., they are just to smart to tie themselves to incompetent clowns
from snow-city.

Bout cooperation today:

What would AInc/Hyperion have to offer (except maybe the name) that Genesi needs ?

NOTHING !

[Kronos]

@uncharted

Well those boards were sold by bPlan (a company that didn't really exist anymore in 2002)
and clearly targeted at companies wanting to develop for MorphOS.

So it was clear that Hyperion would not get on of the very few boards produced in late 01.

It's also questionable whether that would have still be a legally binding order ~1 year later
when the board was offered.

The offer was made for one reason:
Before that ben's standard answer to OS on Peg was allways something like
"they won't give us the board we ordered", when in reality everybody knew that it was the
licence-issue that made it impossible.

This PR (or shall I say FUD) campaign was contered with offering the board, which directly
leed to statements like "sending a board is not enough" and "getting a Pegasos is easy"
from the same ben Hermans.

But somehow I don't think the board was what Nate was refering to, but when Genesi
offered to sell Pegasos bundled with OS4, just not with an licence from Ainc or a dongle.

Or maybe he was even refering to an offer made from bPlan in 01, to make Hyperion
port games to MorphOS, just like Titan or e.p.ic.

[Kronos]

@uncharted

What ??

[Kronos]

@downix

Sorry, but bbrv did do just that right here some months ago.

Wether that was honest, or just a PR-trick to show how thin Hyperion's pro-dongle
arguments were is beyond my knowledge, but thta offer was made.