transami wrote:
Poetic, yes. Laudable, yes. But you've said nothing that makes any business sense!
Okay. That's a fair point. AmigaOS doesn't have the strong application base. That is a real difficulty --probably the most difficult. Of course, one of the goals is compatability with classic software, but even that is only a partial solution. We certainly will be pushing hard to sign on developers geared torward our initial market. But beyond that we may well need to offer a Linux-comaptability layer (perhaps coLinux) or Wine, although I am hopeful we will not need to do so --it does remain to be seen.
There are a lot of good classic apps out there, if we can get some of the major important modern apps ported like firefox and openoffice, then it should suffice for starters --at least for that area of the market.
Does that anwser your question a bit more (without spilling actual beans)?
T.
Try and put yourself in the shoes of a potential investor... All he hears is; "Blah blah, linux, blah, Firefox, openoffice, blah blah..."
He's going say, great get a cheap x86 Mobo (Mini-ITX for £50) and stick Linux on it. When you start saying... our idea actually uses a £400 and can't actually run Firefox or Openoffice due to limitations in the AmigaOS API (it can't support the fork() function for example, so you will need a major rewrite of these two apps alone), and thus a "linux layer" (which needs to be developed) won't be able to support all Linux apps etc... Don't forget there is no memory protection so stability is an issue... What is he going to say to you?
I don't want to rain on your parade but make sure you have all the facts, and be realistic.
P.S. CoLinux and Wine can't run in AmigaOS, the architectural differences are too great and Wine only works on x86 machine.
