Dr. Greg Perry of GPSoftware on Directory Opus for AmigaOS 4

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What is so hard to understand about they didn't get paid any money.

what is soooo hard about that?  The e-mail states very clearly, there is no misunderstanding, they didn't pay the money.

so what will the first 1,000 comments be from the true believers: 'I'm sure its just a misunderstanding.'

AIYEEEEE...get a grip people.  

It's bad enough Amiga doesn't have any money, they also go around signing contracts even though they know they don't have any money.  They borrow money from the community to raise an additional 50K a-la OS4/AmigaOne pre-sales, where'd that money go?

This is HIGHLY UNETHICAL CONDUCT.  OK!!!  This former Amiga, Inc. fan is telling you.   They borrowed 50 GRAND from the community pre-selling OS4.
The AmigaDE iniative maybe was just a disappointing move on the part of Amiga at one time, but now it is so much more than that.  They borrowed 50 GRAND on PRE-SALES of OS4/AmigaOne, and they didn't use the money to complete OS4.

Borrowing money for the DE project is only OK, if you are honest about it.  If you LIE and pre-sell a product with such and such features and behind the scenes you aren't working on it at all, and use the money you get from pre-sales to do other things....well that is just BS!

OK, I don't know why I bother with the comments, either you get it or you don't.
I was an AMIGA fan, I wanted Amiga, Inc. to do well.

They are a huge disappointment, I hope they go out and get real jobs at Burger King soon.

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btw, I do realize I cut out Hyperion and went straight for Amiga, Inc.

This is, in fact, the correct thing to do..  Hyperion IS under Amiga's contract.   In the end this is 'Amiga' OS 4.  An Amiga, Inc. product that will not have DOPUS, that was pre-sold.

If you don't understand why this is important....remember the internal business of hyperion and GPS has nothing to do with the Amiga community.

The issue for the Amiga community is the featureset of OS 4, and whether Amiga is going to deliver it (by whatever convoluted mechanism they choose to deliver it)...especially in light of the fact that many people have already purchased OS4.  Via the party-pack, via the club membership, and via purchasing an actual AmigaONE board.

Now the featureset diminishes, and Amiga, Inc. is ultimately responsible for their product.  

My guess, at least 2,000 copies of OS4 have already been sold via the above named mechanisms....maybe more.  So Hyperion should have some cash to pay their contracts.

LETS TAKE A WILD GUESS, AMIGA INC HASN'T PONIED UP ANY MONEY.

OK, and this reminds me...who has received their club membership rebates?  

 :-)

[MarkTime]

AmigaOS 4 is a Hyperion product.

In terms of your definitions you are correct.  But you are being hard on the english language here (pardon me saying that as an american!)

I don't disagree with you about a technical statement that Hyperion is coding OS 4.

But it is Amiga, Inc., and not anyone else, that made the contract with the community by pre-selling OS 4.  Hyperion didn't do that.  That was all Amiga, Inc.

Maybe someone could argue that the I am Amiga Club, party pack coupons, and promises of free OS 4 that come with an AmigaOne, are not in fact pre-sales of OS 4.

But they sure as heck are...I'm not arguing this before a judge...this is a community board...PSSST they have been pre-selling OS 4 for many months now....

Nevermind what, who, where OS 4 is now....I could argue that the source code Hyperion owns the rights to, until Amiga buys it, isn't OS 4 either, until Amiga buys it....but never mind all that.

Amiga, Inc. has been selling something called 'Amiga OS 4'

they can pre-sell it, if it eventually is a product that they sell.  But if that never happens at all, clearly wrong....if they sell something called OS 4, but its not the product everyone understood it to be....thats very dubious indeed.