I`m confused! Genesi VS Amiga.Inc....the saga continues.......

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IonDeluxe wrote:
Right now we have the choiceof an Aone or pegaosos, we have the choiceof Pegasos or Aos. Both hyperion and eyetech have the choiceof the harware these will support.

Bill Buck intends to remove that choice from both the companies AND the consumer and call it "uniting" when in actual fact it is FORCING, and that is the "Tyranny" I was referring to.

Ok, that's a fair point. I can see where Hyperion and Eyetech would feel pushed around, but to the user who's planning on buying an AmigaOS4 machine when they come out, not much has changed really, just the name of the person making some of the decisions.... but if the customer doesn't get to choose his own board anyway, he's not likely going to care who makes that decision.

...that's if it even happens. I think it could make it to court, but I don't think it'd result in anything. I don't know.

The worst I see happening is the exclusive license becoming non-exclusive, I don't see it being voided.

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QuikSanz wrote:
@T_Bone

" but to the user who's planning on buying an AmigaOS4 machine when they come out "

What do you mean when they come out? Mine will be here in a couple of days. Hmm, I smell a rip off coming.

Chris

You're talking about an "AmigaOne." I was talking about the final product, the software and the hardware, not the Earlybird version sans Operating System. That's what I meant by "an AmigaOS4 machine, " a machine running AmigaOS4.

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@ Plaz

7. Truth is I will buy OS4 to support Hyperion, then probably put it on a shelf because I don't like the MB's available to install it on. MicroATX is promissing though. I'm more likley to support a coldfire card to keep the old amiga going while doing any serious work on Win boxes.

Hyperion was under the impression that x86 was a bad idea, because people would have access to x86, so they'd run Windows instead and buy Windows software.

I agree with you. If someone has a need for Windows, then they will run Windows, irrelevant to their Amiga. I don't know how Hyperion think that the only sales they will make are to people who have no access to an x86 machine. Most of us already DO have access to an x86 machine!

Intentionally making a product less usefull to the costomer doesn't eliminate the need for the lost functionality, the customer will still have this need and fill it, even if it means a sale for the competitor.

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Martyn wrote:

I've read all those threads, it's just the arguments don't hold water.  But I'm here to bash Hyperion,

 :lol:  :lol:  :roflmao:

I'm pretty sure that was a typo!