Terrasoft shelves MAI Logic motherboards

[HyperionMP]

The reason why Terrasoft shelved the products has nothing to do with the hardware and everything with money.

I'm not sure what I can reveal here so I'll leave it to Eyetech.

Needless to say Seehund would have a field-day when the real reason is revealed.

[HyperionMP]

Let's just say that Seehund might find out that Hyperion/Amiga/Eyetech are not the only ones wanting to charge money for the privilege of running an operating system.

At least we only want to charge A1 users and our OS is proprietary and developed by ourselves.

[HyperionMP]

I meant to say that you'll discover that we're not the only "bad guys" in your eyes.

Let's face it, AmigaOS is a proprietary OS developed by Hyperion.

Only people who specifically want AmigaOS will need to pay for it.

Linux is GPL and charging everyone who owns a board capable of running it (even when they have zero intrest in doing so) through the producer of the boards is well, insane.

[HyperionMP]

>What do you mean with "charging through the producer >of the boards"? "Capable of running it"? Surely you >mean every board shipped with the supported retail YDL >distro?

No, I mean EVERY BOARD capable of running it including the A1 and regardless of whether or not they are actually shipping with YDL or not.

Call it a "Linux tax" if you like.

[HyperionMP]

I think you don't fully understand.

Are you saying that you are okay with the fact that EVERY AmigaOne owner including those who have zero intrest in YDL would be required to pay extra on the off chance he may want to run YDL one day?

That's why I call it a Linux tax.

Incidentally, the current Linux distro for the A1 is Debian based as SuSe seems to have discontinued LinuxPPC support.

[HyperionMP]

I should point out that the above statements of mine related to the imposition of a Linux tax were speculation based on the fact that some people informed me that Terrasoft had attempted to do exactly that with bPlan.