"And maybe it will be dead for good like BeOS (and don't say "it's still alive")".
Well, from a commercial perspective BeOS is very much alive. BeOS is open source and can be coded for, modified and released without any drawbacks. Just because it is open source does not mean it cannot be commercial - check out
yellowTab for an idea of the kind of freedom that the BeOS model offers.
Now "dead for good like BeOS" is an extremely naive POV. BeOS has more active developers and users than Amiga does - the development of the OS has kept it more up to date than AmigaOS [asking for flames now!] even though there is no official development team.
IMHO for Amiga to ever get back into the limelight, it has to offer things that other OSs do not, and at a competitive price! Do you honestly think that people will pay for amigaOS when they can get for free a more developed and more advanced OS? Honestly?
Open Source amigaOS would allow the active [and admittedly devoted] world network of developers to improve and add features to the OS as they are required and needed, fixing bugs along the way. A world team of a 100 interested developers are more capable than a small crack team of paid enthusiasts (hyperion).
If you dont believe me, cast your minds back 8 odd years when gif was to be 'taxed' and so the world created PNG. The amiga SDK and its datatype system allowed the community to create native support for this format before any of the other platforms! Imagine if the whole OS was open source, evolving and adapting to cope with the ever changing world of computing.
ps. my chips are on Aros - give them the sourcecode! :-P
