AmigaOne clones?

[Billsey]

I just started reading this thread, so please bear with me if I've yet to read something. The baords that run AOS4 don't need to be built around the dongle, they just need to be able to use it. Perhaps the POP marketplace, such as it is, could come up with some sort of "dongle port", including passthrough, so that whatever software company wants to dongle their software can do so without hurting the overall cost of the boards they want to write for. Perhaps the dongles could be USB based, for example.

[Billsey]

@Kronos and Tigger:

Do you really think Apple won't defend their own turf? Unless Apple provides those drivers, it ain't happening without an awful lot of litigation and people going to jail. Linux is a free OS that can be downloaded without cost. Amiga OS is a commercial product that would be in direct competition with Apple on their own hardware.

[Billsey]

That would be the same mailing list that gave us such important tidbits as "this isnt an MAI board"

See below, please.

From the MAI Home Page:

Mai Logic Incorporated is a total solution IC system design house devoted to customer satisfaction.

Mai Logic is focused on revolutionary chipset architecturing that delivers high-performance solutions to enable the most demanding applications. It supports the current line of PowerPC as well as next generation microprocessors.

By teaming with its strategic partners, Mai Logic has developed complete system design capabilities, including boards, firmware, device drivers, OS, and applications. Mai Logic's solid engineering job guarantees its end-to-end product offering conformable to industry standards and environments.

As one of few design houses combining million-gate-count pure logic with cutting-edge “non-PC” system solutions, Mai Logic provides technologies serving traditional RISC microprocessor based applications and other emerging markets with great flexibility for customization.

they said it's not an MAI board because---get this, please---it's not an MAI board.

MAI makes IC chips and partners with companies that make boards.