Have sales of the Pegasos II been poor, or have they been selling them at a loss? Either way - why doesnt Genesi have the money to pay the developers.
It would seem stupid to dump MorphOS - after all, surely many of the customers, if not all, who purchased Pegasos II chose it because they had previously owned amigas, as opposed to really like Linux.
Whom do Genesi expect to sell the Pegasos II to now? They seem to be abandoning the amiga aspect of it all together - whilst harming the amiga community by once again disapointing the customers and the developers. I would have thought that the businesses who support (or is the exploit?) the amiga community would have learnt that lesson by now - that amigans & devs have been mistreated enough.
I feel sorry for the MorphOS developers, and hope they find new better work elsewhere, quickly.
I feel sorry for the existing owners of the Pegasos; I hope you like Linux on PPC and feel it is better performing (for the money) than Linux on x86.
Whilst I doubt it, I hope there is a silver lining. Perhaps, the new smaller form factor Amigas will sell more - perhaps the community will come together and support the one platform, rather than being divided. I hope that larger numbers behind the one platform might keep it going for longer.
However, I suspect that many people (previous pegasos owners) will feel betrayed and give up on the amiga community and switch over to x86 or Mac.
I'm not chuffed.
Samuar
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Let us all openly support the developers of MorphOS in what must be a difficult time for them.
