When mass production of AmigaOne main boards makes cost more efficient, one would expect prices to drop. My idea is: Let us keep prices, but let Amiga Inc. (or whoever) gather licenses from every single classic software licensee for a fixed price and then sell a BIG package of classic software (and now I mean as much classic software as possible) for free, but included in a license that comes with the buying of the AmigaOne main board.
I also happen to think that it's a silly, pointless idea with no merit whatsoever. Sorry.
Nobody outside the existing Amiga community would be the slightest bit interested in a big package of classic Amiga software, except for the existing Amiga community (us!) who probably own it all already anyway.
Think about it from another point of view... would you buy the latest Pentium 4 motherboard for a ridiculously high price if it came bundled with ancient PC software from the late eighties and early nineties that you'd have to run through emulation? Thought not.
The Amiga needs to be re-launched with new state-of-the-art hardware, a new OS, and a long list of brand-new software launch titles before anyone outside the Amiga community even begins to feel tempted to leave the comfortable world of their PC. Ironically, most companies with enough money to do this (Microsoft, Apple, Sony) already have invested interest in other rival platforms.
The argument of 'we must buy the hardware first, and the software titles will follow' isn't going to convince anyone who isn't already an Amiga fanatic.
Steve.
