If Genesi owned the rights to Amiga IP

[EntilZha]

> No "Dongle" required, you can run AOS4 when it comes ot on the choice of motherboard you wan

Oh, so MorphOS is available on Mac, IBM and Barbie as well ? Great news. I didn't know that, and I bet not even Genesi know that.

Sorry, but that was a rather pathetic attempt.

[EntilZha]

> But OS4 is in hands of Hyperion, right? I mean, if Amiga gets
>  taken over or goes out of business then OS4 remains at
> Hyperion. Part of the deal they made. Correct?

Yes.

[EntilZha]

> Pathetic attempt at what?

AInc bashing.

You assume that Genesi would do it differently. But that's not the case, because MOS is also only available for the Pegasos and the old machines. That's why your comment, IMHO, was just AInc bashing.

Ok, here's *my* personal view, and that's got nothing to do with Amiga or Hyperion or Eyetech: I don't really like the dongle either. I see, however, the necessity to protect against piracy.

[EntilZha]

> Why can't I run AOS4 on any hardware I want then? Because of AInc.

No, not really. Rather because every hardware platform adds another amount of cost to the project. With a tight budget, this is nothing to be trifled with.

And what would we gain ? The only viable alternative for OS4 would IMHO be the Pegasos. Apple users are far too concerned about Apple to care for AmigaOS. Of all Pegasos users, I would estimate that a lot of them are not even interested in AmigaOS.

Ok, what other PPC hardware ? The few $ 5000 IBM pop boards ? Yeah, sure, that would be a market of, say, 10 to 20 people worldwide. Anything else ?

Sure, I don't have a clue about marketing. But at least I think I still have some common sense (even though Seehund will probably say I haven't an I'm doing "true Amiga Thinking").

[EntilZha]

> RELEASE OS4 Screenshots.

Yeah, did that, and have been accused of faking them.

[EntilZha]

> Microsoft handles support how do they do it

ROTFL.

Microsoft spends 250 million dollars for X-Box advertisement alone.