i have talked up aros for a long long time and it seems that hard core amigians seem to be the most against it. always talking about os4.0 and stuff. i for one have no faith whatsoever in the companies that have owned the amigaip. i have faith in us. we have kept amiga alive. we have made it better. we are providing its future.
I agree. Now for my own little addtion to this whole mess. I have not owned an Amiga for at least 15 years. But I have fond memories of how much fun it was to use, responsive, easy, fast. I went with a commercial alt. OS, it was BeOS. I loved it, felt like my old Miggy and was fun. Then I was dumped on as a user. Poof, gone! No support, no updates, nada. When they went down they did nothing for the community they had, they just abandoned us. After that I have no intention of trusting a large or small coperation selling an alt OS. When that alt OS runs on dedicated hardware that is WAY too expensive for what it is, you can coun't me way, way out. This does not mean that I am against OS4, but it is going to take me some time before I would even consider buying it. AROS on the otherhand can take up a position between, people curious about Amiga type OS and people ready to put up the money. I don't think that AROS will ever be completly up to date with OS 4 or beyond but can be a great stepping stone. Unless I am mistaken Aros tries to maitain compatability between MorphOS and AROS. If this is true than it is not too far fetched to think that if enough users are around for AROS that some of those software packages being devloped for MorphOS could be eaisly ported to AROS. It will be very, very hard for Amiga or Morph to get users to buy the hardware just to try the OS. Now if people can try a "work alike" but it doesn't have all the "bells and wistles" then it isn't as big of a step for people to make to get the "full" experence. This is just my 2 cents. Go AROS, because without I will not sink my money into either of the others. I dont' understand the community in general being anti AROS, (that might be a bit harsh of a word) and it isn't going anywhere, ever, can't be sold.
