Actually, I'm comfortably above having to deal with polite platitudes. I've got nothing personally invested in this. I'm a MorphOS user. I don't use classic or new generation Amiga hardware. If the MorphOS developers decided to move to X86, I'd probably follow.
But I'm not hung up on the name Amiga. Its just a name. Apparently one you can buy.
I can put the name Amiga on any of my computers running MorphOS2.5 in any shape, way or form and as long as I don't try selling multiple computers with the intent to defraud the buyer into thinking that they are actually "Amiga" manufactured, or officially sanctioned by the owner of the Amiga copyrighted name, and there isn't anything anyone could do about it.
Amiga computers (for me anyway) stopped being manufactured with the last few A4000T's that QuickPak assembled (unless some A1200's were made after that time). The many different forms of AmigaOne's are different and unique in their own way, but I don't consider them Amiga computers any more or less than a PC running AROS, or WinUAE, or a Mac, or Pegasos running MorphOS.
If AmigaOne and Sam owners want to believe that their computers are "Real Amiga's", that is okay with me too, I just don't agree with them and don't care enough to argue about it.
It is amazing and sort of sad that there has been so much fuss made over what Commodore USA and Amiga Inc. have done. I doubt it will make any difference in actual sales of any AmigaOS4.x products now or in the future. If anything, it might actually draw some attention to the Amiga community from people that have left it and that might lead to future sales of AmigaOS4.x and the computers that it runs on.
Be calm Navi', be calm.
