Lemmink wrote:
That means once OS4 is out there will be no OS 4.1 unless AInc itself would develop it, what is even more unlikely, as they have stated that they have no interest in AmigaOS.
KMOS must have some interest in Amiga OS since they bought it even before they bought Amiga Inc. However, they have expressed little interest in Amiga OS on the desktop and if Gary Hare has any business sense it comes as no surprise. OS development is expensive and I doubt there is currently a big enough market for OS 4 and beyond on the desktop to support that development cost.
What exactly KMOS wants to do with Amiga OS is not clear. If maintaining a desktop version of Amiga OS alongside a version for whatever market Gary Hare plans on targetting requires very little effort, I would imagine that they would continue selling a desktop version. If they move the OS in a direction that would make it difficult to maintain a desktop version, I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped it. Even if they have a new version every year and they charge $50 for the upgrade, they'll probably have just enough to support one programmer working full time on the project. Even Apple can't maintain a rate of one new OS release a year and they surely have more than one programmer working on OS X.
IMHO, the only way Amiga OS on the desktop makes business sense is if the development is largely bankrolled by some other use of the OS making the development of the desktop version largely free.
