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Re: Motorollin's "Future of the Amiga" thread
« on: December 12, 2006, 11:05:14 PM »
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JimS wrote:
You forgot the hobbyist market. I don't think there is a chance in heck of *any* alternative machine making any sort of move onto the desktop these days. But there might be a big enough market in the "true believers" and retro fans. Ainc could pay the $$ needed to convert something like the minimig or clone-A to ASIC, and sell it to hobbyists & gamers. Heck, it might make a good little kiosk board itself.


Two problems I see with this;

1. Amiga Inc. is broke

2. Amiga Inc. shouldn't be allowed anywhere near something as great as the minimig, they will only f*** it up like everything else they've touched.


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Amiga Inc. should just give up, hand the source code over to the community and let us get on with the task of getting OS4 ported and running on an availiable hardware platform. Statistically, we stand a good chance of being able to compete with Linux on the desktop front at least ;-)
 

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Re: Motorollin's "Future of the Amiga" thread
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2006, 01:14:30 PM »
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philipj wrote:

I agree, sadly. Open source is the only way forward if Amiga is to stand a chance at surviving in the future.


Why sadly??? Do you think Linux would have been as successful had it been closed source and limited to some obscure overpriced piece of hardware? I guarantee there isn't a developer in this forum who wouldn't jump at the chance to build on Amiga OS under an open source model.
 

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Re: Motorollin's "Future of the Amiga" thread
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2006, 09:12:06 PM »
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I am not every person on this forum. I also didn't say I wanted it limited to overpriced hardware.

That's a big reaction for one word - I'll keep my mouth shut next time.


Big reaction??? Hmmmm.......