AmigaOS 3.1 source code leak - official statement

[NorthWay]

http://intuitionbase.com/misc/FutureProductOptions_dist.pdf

Were they smoking something really good, or did they believe the ghost of Jack was walking the halls at C=? By that time I would have hoped they had realized you can't just do like in old times and scrap what you had and bung out something new and incompatible. Why would a loyal Amiga owner want a totally incompatible PA-RISC thing? Starting from scratch with 0 installed userbase is next to nuts.
That washing-off-hands at AAA also makes me scratch my head.

But now I see where the CIX leak about "CR" systems came from. A $100 cut would have been a gamechanger...

[NorthWay]

If they went PA-RISC and had software, the masses would have followed, I know I would have.

IBM Mainframe with MVS/zOS
PC with DOS/Windows

The masses voted with their wallets; software is too valuable to trash your system.
No new system (excluding game consoles and phones) has been successfully introduced in competition with the existing the past 25(30?) years. Even the Mac has kept compatibility in its many incarnations.

The trouble with introducing a new system is that you reset everything. Your old customers will not only be evaluating your new system, they will be comparing it to your competitors without giving you any inherent benefit. As happens in the game console market where they seem to be syncing releases with each other - customers have even less reason to be loyal or wait out in such a situation.