As some of you know, I struggle to put things in a concise way, only eventually succeeding after rambling on about it for ages....
but here is another idea proposed by members of the community, that Amiga OS can survive the loss of Amiga, Inc.
I am duly pondering this...and as a general rule, I always say, is there any precedent for this?
Of course new things happen sometimes, but I find a person should first examine history, and learn from it...as a general rule.
Well, two examples come to my mind. Strangely, TOS, the infamous OS of former arch-rival Atari, and a more recent example BeOS.
Both 'survived' the loss of the parent company. TOS was licensed to a few german companies, and one of them Milan, eventually produced a clone. And of course, there were other clones, like the Medusa, which ran a version of TOS.
Then there is Be, Inc. And the recent news about yellowtab, and we see, that a new commercial version is set to be released, and we have the OpenBEOS movement...for that matter, on the Atari side, some TOS clones and open versions of desktop replacements too.
But, despite the technical survivial of those OS's....they all but disappeared from the landscape and to have any further impact on the computing industry...another way of looking at it, is they most definately did not survive the loss of the parent company, in terms of influence, in terms of ever turning the tide on a shrinking marketplace and user base.
Will things be different for Hyperion? Not sure...
I doubt it, the appeal of Amiga OS 4, is still the legacy as a direct descendent of the name and ip...even if its a different direction of Commodore, its still the product of mother Amiga.
