Regarding pricing policy of "OS4.1.7"

[giZmo350]

Hi all.

As a paying OS4 customer (been using OS4 on and off since the very first release for Amigaone XE G4), I just wanted to raise the issue of the new pricing policy regarding "OS4.1 FE", which in practice will be the seventh update of OS4.1.

I must say I feel more than a little tricked by this strange and sudden move.

I once paid 138,85 EUR (incl vat and shipment) for OS 4.1 (the Pegasos version) and had to wait 2 weeks for a worthless CD I never had any use for (it has never even entered my CD-ROM, not once), since you have to download the "4.1 update 1" ISO the first thing you do anyway, and install the OS from there. All the 4.1 updates were supposed to be included, that was always "the deal", right? But now rules have changed, and as reported in this thread I now obviously have to spend *even more* money on *another* worthless physical "OS4.1" CD if I want to be able to download further 4.1 updates from the Internet.

Also, the second hand market for OS4.1 disappeared in one blow by this. It will be impossible for me to sell "OS4.1.6", no matter the price, since it suddenly was rendered utterly worthless. Of course I knew that "OS4.2" would once again mean a new purchase (as has been communicated all along), but since I (and I'm not the only one) looks at "4.2" as some kind of utopia (with a promised feature set that is quite impossible in an *Amiga compatible* environment) I was - and still am - quite convinced that it will never actually happen, or at least take a *very* long time. So while I of course bought OS4.1 to use it, I still kind of presumed that there would be an option open to sell it as second hand to someone else down the road as long as "4.2" hadn't been released.

But this obviously changed with this sudden and unexpected decision to charge money once again for an OS4.1 update already!

I feel double-tricked, there is no way to move either forwards or backwards without either losing money already spent, or spend even more money. And remaining passive is not really an option either, since all upcoming OS4.1 updates will require "OS4.1.7"/"FE". I feel that this was never the deal. OS4.2 was to be the next paid update.
I think this really sucks.

Hmmm, here's a thought...
Instead of "all of that up there" maybe you could have just asked...

Hello AmigaKit, Hyperion & AmigaGods,
I was just wondering what the OS4.X upgrade path is for us PEG owners?

Thanks and have a very pleasant day, TMHG....

"I feel double-tricked, there is no way to move either forwards or backwards without either losing money already spent, or spend even more money."

[giZmo350]

[giZmo350]

I dunno. I've used both, appreciate  both... what I don't appreciate are when people turn every innocuous  thread into a red v. blue slugfest. Most of the posts by OS4 users seem  more like this:



and less like this:



But maybe that's just my IMHO.

Hey Mike, I think you got your pictures mixed up! :rofl:

[giZmo350]

wanna put up with that:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/10/07/amiga-os5-to-be-better-than-mac-os-x/
;P?

seriously, given that bad karma, even then it is no go, since its too distant already. you need somethimg that seems within reach and then just leaks through your fingers without you knowing whom to blame if not yourself.

Man, with all the drive-by posting going on in this thread somebody  needs to invent a digital version of stop-sticks!

Is there any end to  the semantic diatribe by the usual flame baiting suspects? Huffington  Tech!? HA! Is Ariana Huffpoof where you learn your screed of  deceit? No wonder I couldn't make heads or tails of the harangue in this thread!  How's that for mincing words! :lol: BTW, this is not a challenge... even I know that a liberal always has the last word. Hmmm, I think there will be some irony to follow.