Interview Titan Computer

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I don't think it was a good idea of the interviewer to put the  word "official" between quotation marks with regard to this board being an official AmigaOne, there simply is no doubt from nobody, about this board being an official AmigaOne or not.

And in a matter of a week they will see just how much of a still-birth the AmigaOne really is.  :-D  IMO it is really sad to see Amiga companies, who have been "friends" in the past, choose sides, and backstab eachother with uncalled for FUD.

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Apparently they referred to something like "the official hardware"

I know what they meant, but if I let my sister read this she would interpret this differently. And of course this board is an official AmigaOne, and may use the brandname for which Amiga Inc paid millions of dollars. Brand names do matter and they are worth alot of money.

as there can't really be any "official" hardware since no company owns the market and the customers.

No, but companies do own brandnames. I don't think Microsoft would sell their company name even for billions of dollars.

What, you're suggesting that the success/failure of Eyetech's distribution of Teron CX boards should be judged by the sales during the first day(s)?

Better re-read, as that was not what I was saying.

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And somehow I'm not suprised that I never saw such a remark from

Be sure that I *will* criticize Hyperion if they would make unfair comments in a public interview with regard to the Pegasos . Like for instance calling the product to be a still-birth or similar.

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It's obviously a site and an interview aimed at people who have an at least rudimentary insight and interest in the current Amiga situation.

Yes, but that does not imply all such interested readers understand what is being suggested or implied and therefor I think this was badly formulated.

Quite, but that has nothing to do with what I wrote. I said that AInc doesn't own the market they're targeting

Official was used in the interview with regard to an officially Amiga branded and Amiga Inc licenced product.

"MorphOS is illegal" campaign.

People continuously forget that Ralph Schimdt and Bill Buck made these allegations public themselves. IMO this should have stayed behind closed doors at time, but apparently the MorphOS team thought this would help them in some way, so then that's their choice.

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@ Kronos/Seehund

Yes, it was Ralph Schmidt who made this public in interviews and through messages on public message boards. It's quite some time ago now, surely long before you heard anything from Ben with regard to this subject.

When one party trows allegations into the public, IMO the other party is fully entitled to give their standpoint to the public as well. Much later when things were calming down a little, it was Bill Buck who publicly revealed a confidential email conversation with Fleecy Moss, again confirming that Amiga Inc considers MorphOS to be an illegal product.

@ Seehund

and there can't be an official (without quotes) product targeting an open market

Well Amiga/Hyperion own the official AmigaOS market (companies need to acquire licences), just like Apple owns the official MacOS X market. That does not mean Hyperion or anyone else may not target MacOS X or MorphOS users.

I never have seen people within other OS communities getting wind up as much about this, as MorphOS fans. It has to be clear, MorphOS is not AmigaOS as else the OS designers needed to buy the rights (Source code, but at least the brandname) for millions of dollars themselves or they needed to come to an agreement with current owners.

government monopoly on telephony infrastructure, then using the word official without quotes would be correct

Telephony is a service, you would therefor need to clearly specify to what official is referring to.

For instance there is no official Cola. However there are official Coca Colas or Pepsi Colas. Within the Macintosh market nowadays there only exists one official MacOS X hardware supplier, even if the Pegasos and AmigaOne will also be able to run MacOS X.

Write the author and request that they remove the word entirely if it bugs you so.

LOL, who said that it bugs me so much? I only said it was a bad idea. IMO in general the interviewer did a good job.