Who owns Amiga Intellectual Property

[Hammer]

STUser wrote:

Well, the new Amiga branded PPC boards have nothing in common (sp) with the old 68k hardware.

So no backward compatibility with any old Amiga applications?  No common hardware?  A totally new OS?

Motorola never "Athlon’ed" the 68K in the magnitude of the modern X86 processors.  

Isn't this the equivalent of "Amiga" selling a rebranded e-Machines Wintel Box with XP and UAE and calling it an "Amiga"?

What do you Amiga folk think of this?  What keeps you with Amiga if they're making completely incompatible hardware and software?  What makes an Amiga an Amiga?

Refer to the reasons why some pundits buy MacOS X/PowerMac G5(PowerPC 970) instead of using MacOS 8.1 on 68K emulated X86 PC/68K Mac with a slow PPC add-on/on some wana’be Mac clones .

[Hammer]

x86 is a dead end. PowerPC (and AMD64) are the chips of the future.

Note that AMD64 encapsulates X86-64/X86-32/X86-16/IA-32 domain.

[Hammer]

STUser wrote:

If someone would get licensed for selling Mac hardware to us stupid AmigaOS users who don't know how to buy hardware, it'd be "a Macintosh for more". Just like it's "a Teron for more" right now.

Hmmm. . . would the PegasOS or Amiga OS 4 run on UAE running on a Macintosh?

The current UAE (e.g. WinUAE) doesn’t emulate PowerPC processor, thus no go for AmigaOS 4.0 (PowerPC edition).

It’s possible one could program MOL like virtualisation box on any PPC HW (with sufficient computing power), but such action may involve compromising the copy protection of AmigaOS 4.0 thus breaking DRM.