Hyperion made a deal to continue AmigaOS development.
AmigaOS4 is based on AmigaOS code.
A deal with Amiga Inc, a proven con outfit. I see no connection with the real AmigaOS here.
And OS4 is not based on AmigaOS code, that's just a stupid claim from years back. It's engineered from the ground up using autodocs to be OS3 compatible, just like MOS and AROS. That has become very clear from its greater compatibility to autodocs than to actual OS3, which breaks a lot of software. Eventually Hyperion will fix this I don't doubt, but it shows straight away that OS4 was not based on original, hardware dependent OS3 68k C/ASM code.
It's more like OS3 than how MOS is, especially the design.
Nope. MOS is more like OS3 in every way. OS4 is rather incompatible, uses the MMU like crazy (Commodore NEVER used the MMU), and is furthermore incompatible in other conceptual ways (like renaming all the language catalog dirs in ENGLISH, breaking all old installers). OS4 has departed from OS3 in MANY ways. It's probably the most alien to the OS3 structure of all the current AOS clones.
I rather have companies that can deliver hardware and a company that deliver AmigaOS.
That's a pointless argument, because if tomorrow Hyperion lost the right to call OS4 AmigaOS and Genesi got it, I'm damn sure most of the now-KMOS4 users wouldn't suddenly buy Pegasos just to run AmigaOS.
As for Eyetech...they don't deliver hardware. They simply rebadge it and resell it.
What is the actual name worth, except hype and marketing? What is it worth to the user? Consider that.
To me KMOS does not have the flaws of Amiga Inc. But it neither has any merits either. It's pretty neutral. Perhaps the CEO seems too sane for Amiga market. (no, wait, I forgot the business card grazyness)
That's the whole point - what do you actually know about KMOS? Even less than you did about Amiga Inc, I'm pretty sure. How can you possibly trust them?
They also say cow meat from UK is cheap. I do not buy it.
Irrelevant. It would be relevant of the Pegasos hardware were horribly buggy. It's not.
No. KMOS has that option. They already acted when the threat against AOS became apparent in the thendic-Amiga court issue.
I'm willing to bet KMOS has just as little court power as Amiga Inc. I could be wrong, but they don't seem to be clamping down on small entrepreneurs using the Amiga OS4 name without royalties yet, do they?
I think helping AOS4 in any way is the best way to help to keep AOS alive.
Other than that, supporting MOS (without supporting Genesi, if possible), AROS, Amiga SW/HW developers is far better thing to do than supporting Amiga.Inc.
Well, we differ in the first point. I have the genuine feeling OS4 was introduced just to spike bPlan's plans early on. I agree with the second point - supporting actual developers and
trustworthy companies supports the Amiga. Sadly, the list of trustworthies is rather short.
btw. "supporting name-leeching companies" made me build the following reminder of who might get money when one buys A1/AOS4:
Let me amend that a bit. Who gets money when you buy A1/OS4: Amiga Inc (licencing fees); Mai logic; Eyetech; Hyperion. None of which are particularly deserving.
IMHO: it is better option for Amiga OS fan than the main alternative ( why support AOS imitator OS that is planned to be "something else" if the "original" is also there, why support "other than AOS HW platform" rather than the existing AOS HW platform etc. )
OS4 is an imitator OS too.
Try to think of it as if no-one had the Amiga name. You have HyperionOS, bPlanOS, and OpenROS. Which is most 'Amiga'?
