My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

[gertsy]

Not sure why all the hoo har?
The guy is building novelty PCs with a retro name that he has licensed. One of them a pretty neat looking c64.
Free world, free market. If ya don't like them don't buy them.
It's like arguing over a re-licensed version of Star Trek on the TV.  If you don't like it you turn it over, you don't try and stop the thing being produced.
My view is there's room in the world for this type of kit. it's a positive effort.
As was Red's.  WD Red.
As long as there is clarity as to what these machines do, and are, and what they arent.

Who was it that said, any publicity is good publicity.  It might re-awaken a new Commodore/Amiga consciousness.

[gertsy]

nothing wrong with novelty PC's, it's the way it's been gone about.
Amiga Inc lost the amigaOS4 court case, calling the new skinned linux OS5 is just underhand, and a clear attempt at obfuscation. They have no OS4 to be an upgrade from.
Same thing for the name of the machine, it's named to mislead, and to be confused with the new X1000 from A-eon.
There is room for this kit. It looks nice, if it's got a commodore and amiga logo, and looks a bit like workbench-that's cool.

they could have went about it in a less underhanded manner, and let it stand on it's own merits.

When did Amiga Inc lose the amigaOS4 court case?
Agree 100% on the OS5 bit. I think if we ignore that though it will go away.  If it hasn't already.

[gertsy]

I'm late to this party, mostly because I don't care enough about the religious wars to get involved again. But I have read through the thread now and I think only Kronos really raises any interesting questions.

Here's my tuppence worth... This guy, Barry, seems like a reasonable bloke with a bit of cash and bordom on his side. He doesn't know much about the retro commodore scene but thinks there might be a Market for some vintage styled equipment. He sees it as a fun little hobby to keep him busy and he clearly has motivation to make a product.
IMHO I think all the whingers here should just shut up and let him do something, you never know, he might make an intereting product... If he fails to deliver then, definitely give him crap for it...

As for the religious crap about "true Amiga", that got real old about 6 years ago. No current project has "direct lineage" with the old Commodore Amiga, and in fact all the current projects have shared code/ideas to the point that they are more closely relatedto each other than to the "One true Amiga"(tm)...

Take care!

Ohh no Bloodline is thinking the same as me.. Or am I thinking the same as him?  
Pretend OS5 or specialised, potentially "equally useful" OS4.1.
I guess the bright side you posted with no mention of that M word.

Reality check....
Would the real amiga OS please step out from behind 3.9 and do some HD video encoding for me........Okay then how about running some HD Streaming video?......Burn a blue ray video ?.....
There are crickets chirping on the open ground where once stood a stadium at which there was once a race.