Thendic holding Amiga licence and patents?

[Desler]

Before to judge something, wait and see. And speak only about what you really know. For that, try to come to Meetings & Shows where Pegasos/MorphOS are demonstrated, especially the next Aachen in Germany

It might be that the pegasos/morphos solution is a very nice package, and that the hardware is cheap and so on. But  the fact is still that its not an amiga!!!
Its an OS which is compatible with amigaOS. It may outrange Aos 4.0 for all that I know but its still not the real thing.
It seems to me that there have been alot of hard feelings between morphos/pegasos and amiga inc from the start. Maybe one should just accept the loss and try to marked the morphos as an independant os

[Desler]

you'll see, if someone would have told you it'd be AmigaOS4, you would have believed it immediately.

Its not my point. As I stated before morphOS can be a great product, possibly even the best OS in the whole galaxy... ever. But it STILL doesnt change the fact that its not the amigaOS. The amigaOS are being built by Hyperion under license from amiga inc. Its an amiga because they OWN the name. Its their name, its their decisions.

But Amiga Inc. doesn't own us, the community - they just acquired the trademark. So it's absolutely legitimate for other companies to advertise towards us for buying or even developing for their products. As others - including Gateway, QNX, Be Inc. or the current Amiga Inc. with their totally unrelated Tao stuff - did before...

Quite right... But then advertise the morphos just as it is: morphOS.. Not a better version of amigaOS. If its a good enough product and there is enough developed for that platform, people will choose that platform.
Please dont misunderstand this. I have never tried neither Aos 4.0 nor morphOS. Its not my point to say one is better than the other. My point is that this is two seperate products and it annoys me when people tries to blur the destinction between the two

[Desler]

If AmigaOS5 is supposed to be a magical merger of the OS4 and DE, why couldn't MorphOS and DE? Well, we do not really think this is a particularly useful direction, BUT we are willing to fund the development of this IF there is someone out there that can actually do it. Please send us an email.

This is a good example of blurring the destinctions. I have nothing but respect for the amount of work/money BB, his wife and the rest of the Genisis (is it spelled correct? new name - slow brain :-)) group have put into their project, but I have problems with their ways of promoting it