oh & who says that a SW firm cant put there name to HW.
ever seen Mircrosoft on joysticks,mouses,rollerballs,stearingwheels ?
they had to go to MS to get aproval & so that MS could make sure it worked right with windows & then pay MS for ever bit of HW that was sold with the Mircrosoft stamped on it.
there is nothing wrong with that, but in Amiga.inc case you only have to pay for AmigaOs & the roms.
& for a SW firm making there own HW, do you think that MS made the Xbox them selfs, do you think that all inventors make the products then selfs, no they just give the HW specs to the HW firm to make on there behalf, its normal.
look at the GF green lean grilling machine or the tony little fitness range of products they dont make them, a HW firm makes them on there behalf.
it would be silly for an inventor to be hampered by having to get the £ to set up his own firm cos the ppl buying the product would moan that the inventor did not make the HW him selfs.
90% of inventors go to existing HW firm to get there invention on the market.
& i think what Amiga.inc is doing right now is the safest thing to do At this moment intime.
some ppl forget that 90% of the the pc world is not that savy about a wide aspect of SW & HW they just use it for the task at hand & when things go wrong they call for help.
if amiga.inc had a licenced & a open version & told that only ppl who go licenced can get AmigaOs help support do you real think that ppl who bought open would not try & still email/ring the amigaOs support system.
ofcorse they would as some ppl are stupid, just like what happned with the AOS4 screen shots even tho it clearly states that this is not final look on the page, ppl still talked as if it was.
i see loads of ppl haveing problems in totally opens platform lots of PC related problem with HW & SW even tho windows XP is running fine on there setup an apps or game is not cos of HW issues
you dont see that kind of problem so much in the Mac world.
& even having totaly open SW can lead to problems as well, linux is forking & the only reason why that is useable to alot of ppl is cos the bistros go out of there way to put things together for you that work, STRICO,YAM problems on the amiga you get a really stable version then the next version has 1001 bugs.
anyway we dont want to see ppl going & getting a non aproved ppcmobo buying Aos4 then emailing/phoneing for help then not getting any then saying AmigaOs is crap & unstable when infact its the crap ppc mobo at fault then throwing Aos in then bin & telling his mates & everyone eles that AmigaOs is crap.
but thats not Seehounds problem tho is it. im all right jack.
