MorphOS - YOU should try it too

[XDelusion]

Exactly! It just works! Thankx for sharing your MorphOS joy!

[XDelusion]

I was happy to support the MophOS team by purchasing a copy of MorphOS. Considering the cost of that and my Mac together, I just bought my self a damn cheap Amiga!

Thank you MorphOS team! I know you guys are not making a lot of money off this, but the end product shows the fruits of your love for Amiga, so thank you!

[XDelusion]

From what I recall, if you prove that your Mac died, you can transfer your license to another one.

I suppose you can always use AROS. It ain't MorphOS, but it is coming along, slowly but surely. It's certainly fun to tinker with that's something I'm coming to find. It ain't perfect, but then again it is free.


If you want something that is rock solid, well then show a little love back to the Amiga community and register this puppy and give it a roll on a Mac, they don't cost much. I mean it's only 300 or less total for a cheap Amiga (MorphOS included), what more could we ask for?

As for hardware dying...

...who's going to replace your classic Amiga when it dies? It's the name of the game in the Amiga scene, we're not dominated by corporate domination. We're Corporation free here my friend, only small time businesses at most, other than that a small community of users who do what they can in their own way to keep the dream alive.

[XDelusion]

And that's perfectly cool with me! Love Amiga in your own way!

[XDelusion]

Thirdly, what if your MOS machine doesn't break? What about if you buy a Mac Mini and run MOS on it for a year, then get hold of a full G4? You want to pension the Mac Mini off to run Linux or OS X, and use the G4 for MOS... do you have to take a sledgehammer to the Mini and destroy it to transfer the license, even though you have no intention of using a Mac Mini any more for MOS? It's impossible to prove that you're not going to continue using the Mini.


Fourthly, it makes no sense. The only people who are seriously going to be interested in running MOS are hobbyists, and will respect the developers. The kind of person who pirates such a minority OS is very unlikely to give anything back to the community anyway, they're going to look at it, get bored, and go back to OS X or Windows. You need to be a hobbyist to run Amiga-like OSes these days, and I think any true hobbyist will fork out the cash needed.

Lastly, I think the logic is flawed: success of an OS is dependent on number of users, not the amount of licenses sold. It's much better to sell 500 licenses and have 5,000 users than it is to sell 1,000 licenses and have 1,000 users....

 I personally suspect that MOS has lost more users than it has gained with its over-restrictive policy on license keys.

For what it's worth I legally own all my software, including OSes. I don't pirate anything (I'm no thief).

Right, that's enough of my 3cents, normal service can resume now.

I can not argue with any of this, I see your logic totally.