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Re: Amiga Inc - An open letter to the Amiga community
« on: October 04, 2007, 02:50:18 AM »
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Actually, I think it's quite reasonable. They can't ship a product that won't work. Nothing wrong with the hardware, but they don't have an OS for it. There is a 3rd party that won't give it to them. It's their OS and because of all this, they are now in court. They still can't sell a working product unless people want Linux, if that's the case, go buy a generic PC.

Makes sense to me, there have been a lot of setbacks with the OS and programming of it by a delivery date. Heck it was supposed to be ready years ago! I still have a flyer labled "AOS on tour 2003!!" "come and see the new AmigaOne PPC ATX motherboard and Amiga OS4..." etc etc.
One thing I know is AI aren't to blame for that lack of maturation. It has taken far far too long tog get out. Now that it's supposedly finished, they can't get their hands on it to sell with new hardware.

I wouldn't sell new hardware with no product it was meant to run, I certainly wouldn't let some 3rd party take away my OS they were contracted to program and sell for me either oif they had broken their contracts and held my company at ransom. Nope, whatever the reason is, there is a reason AMIGA is in court and fighting to get it's OS, it's not a lie, it is something we can touch, see and feel. There is no lie here about the current situation, the court will decide on what is to happen with AMIGA products and it is also the deciding factor on how long this time period will be. Until this is sorted, we can't expect anything. Again, the consumers must suffer. I do understand why though.
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Re: Amiga Inc - An open letter to the Amiga community
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2007, 11:05:42 PM »
@ Minuous,

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Even accepting what you said, that still doesn't excuse their lack of direction/activity, lack of communication with the community"

Why not?
Simply, they have no product!
Why bother talking about something that hasn't materalised.
I see what you're trying to get at but realistcly, it's those other companies doing all the talking and being late, so late, umm, 4 years late keeping AMIGA from filling any promise it may have talked about.
Put quite simply, unless AMIGA can ship a finished product, it fails. AMIGA decided to shut up or put up. Personally I think it's a wise decsion from what happens even in it's own community. Too much damage on failed deadlines again. ...4 years *laugh you are right, what a pilliar of the AMi community those others are.
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