Workbench 5.0??

[EDanaII]

@ All

My assessment is that they are attempting to do what Apple did: create a new OS with Linux -- Apple used Darwin -- at its base. Mostly I see a lot of what is normal for the Amiga community: big dreams. Until they change their business model -- sell Commodore labeled cases -- I suspect all this is gonna be is a dream.

Speaking for myself, they're certainly of no interest to me, as my only remaining interest in Amiga is the OS and they, effectively, are abandoning it.

[EDanaII]

I doubt Commodore USA have either the resources or the skill to achieve anything like that.

In their defense, Moto, they're a startup and startups seldom have the skills or resources initially. The plan to create an Linux based OS is a _long term_ plan and will only likely be realized depending on the success of their short-term plans: create Commodore branded hardware.

This is, unfortunately, where I doubt their success. Since they are effectively marketing nostalgia, I expect they can sell some hardware numbering in the thousands, possibly in the tens of thousands, but I suspect they need to sell hardware in the hundreds of thousands, even millions before they have enough to sustain the skills and resources required to actively support their long term plans.

Or, more accurately: if it's a plain off-the-internet Linux distro, then they can sell 1 unit a month and have the resources they need, Ubuntu, for example, is still free. If it's a brand new written from scratch OS, then, yes, they'd have to sell in high volumes to support it. What they can actually achieve will simply depend on how many units they actually move.

Only time will tell.

But the only value-add they can currently give to their potential customers is the Commodore brand and after 17+ years of non-existence, I doubt that's worth very much.