Hello
Imagine the future of Amiga computing 5 year from now. What will happen?
There is a joke about Yugoslavia / Balkan: after the bloody war, the country is broken to 9 states and each new state want 1 alphabet from the old country. This process is called "Balkanization".
I am afraid similar thing will happen to the small A.M.I.G.A. community in the future:
A: AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, Amithlon, Umilator, UAE.
M: MorphOS (Quark kernel)
I: Intel X86 CPU (ie Amithlon, AROS).
G: G3 and G4 based PowerPC machines.
A: AROS.
(Perhaps in the future ColdFire or PowerPC 970).
I guess no one except "real Amiga die hard" will use 68K machines in the distant future.
This will drive crazy any developer who want to port their software to Amiga platform. Perhaps OpenAmiga is the best choice to unite all the above platforms, because software based on OpenAmiga standard will be compatible with all the above OS and also CPU Independent (ie it can be re-compiled for different CPU platforms without any problems).
What is your opinion about the Balkanization of Amiga?
