Be friends! Please!... Amiga and Genesi! I love you both!, but...

[Hammer]

No, MorphOS doesn't need the Amiga name. It needs a big market, more users, more developers, modern hardware, advertising. With all of that, it could go far.

Notice the recent "server watch" news still recognizes Amiga name as an example.

So far, the name hasn't really effected the people choosing to buy a cheaper Pegasos over an A1, has it??

IF that was the case, Pegasos HW should have romped home over Eyetech's relatively expensive A1-XE/A1-SE.

It hasn't got people who want x86 to buy one either, has it?

In terms of brand name; the Amiga brand name is simply been crashed by the titans of brand names e.g.
- Intel (Pentium, "Intel Inside"),
- AMD (Athlon, "64bit X86", "AMD Me, "Superior Windows engine"),
- Microsoft (Windows),
- Lindows,
- Dell, HP, VIA, SUN and ‘etc’ .

Support infrastructure is another issue e.g. ISV, education/training, channel support, tools chain, middleware, application/MIS solution providers and etc.

[Hammer]

There has been too much bitterness,

It didn’t stop Microsoft and DEC from working together e.g. DEC sued MS for VMS copyright breaches in their Windows NT product. They both signed an agreement that benefits each other.

[Hammer]

I just think. What would happened with the world wich we live in if Windows was that fast and good? I don't want to think that far. It scares me

Depends on the majority of MS beta program participant’s requests.

[Hammer]

restore2003 wrote:
Its os4 with some extra glitter and candles?  :-P
Take the name MorphOS, it should really change name, it`s not catchy at all, not a name the unfamiliars with the os would remember....

The name MorphOS sounds and looks (from screen shot) like Morphix i.e. yet another Linux distro.

One could take some naming clues from X86 marketing machines e.g.
1. AMD’s Athlon; a combination Greek words (i.e. supreme challenger). An example of marketing made up word.
2.  Intel’s Pentium; fifth generation with metallic “ium” (e.g. Uranium, Radium, Potassium, ‘etc’). Yet another marketing made up word.
3. Transmeta; Yet another marketing made up word.
4. ATI’s Radeon; beyond Rage (graphic chipset precursor to Radeon). Yet another marketing made up words.
5. NVIDIA/nForce; “n” stands for “nth”.
6. Lindows; Linux for Wintel desktop PC. A play on Windows and Linux words.

The name "MorphOS" doesn’t sound unique enough.