Is anybody thinking about joining the Rebellion (Pegasos/MOS)?

[Zadoc]

It's funny that you should bring this topic up, considering my mindset as of late.  I too have been thinking about possibly going MOS/Pegasos.  As pointed out MANY months ago, the Pegasos seems to be a much nicer board and is quite cheaper than the A1.  The hardware dongle issue also makes me lean a bit closer to the MOS camp.

The only problem is, is that I know virtually NOTHING about MorphOs.  The official MorphOs website is filled with too much technical jargon, no screenshots, no information that means anything to an average end user like me.  Even with as little as we know about OS4, it is much more than I know about MorphOs (seeing that I have never owned a PPC card and never have seen the older MOS betas).

Personally, I think MOS camp needs to show the world what it has a bit better.

Sadly, my REAL aspiration was to have the SharkPPC card in my current Mediator A1200 setup running OS4...it doesn't look very good at this moment to appear, although I really hope I am wrong.

[Zadoc]

"The hardware dongle issue also makes me lean a bit closer to the MOS camp."

I really don't understand this concern. If you buy OS4 bundled with an AmigaOne why would you care if licensing restrictions are in place to prevent someone else from copying it?

Well, my concern is this: when OS4 was announced, shortly afterwords Elbox was touting their SharkPPC card saying that it would run OS4.  Much later the Pegasos board was announced as well which is a nicer (in my opinion) board than the A1.

Now it seems, mainly due to this 'dongle' issue that SharkPPC's and PegasOs boards (which are hardware compliant) wont be running OS4.  I just don't care for this approach, seeing as the end user will probably have to pay more money for a 'dongled' board due to licensing costs.  If WinXP required dongled x86 boards, there would be an uproar from people having to pay for Microsoft to physically dongle every x86 board on the market.

I am all for some form of anti-piracy measure, but I just think this is the wrong way to go about doing it.