In Hyperion's case they may never decide to go with updated 68K development. And that's fine and their right. However in the long run I am trying to suggest that supporting a bigger ecosystem of 68K and PPC users is more beneficial to their company in the long run. This taking into consideration that PPC is running out of steam and the Apollo (and other 68k) cores are coming on strong. Maybe sub-licensing would work? Who knows.
But again, until any hardware is shipping in volume it isn't worth the hassle. A large user base opens up options for bounties and such.
Then again AROS may grow up enough to make any further debate pointless.
It will be interesting to watch how things play out this year.
Cheers!
Yes I agree, if they can get (cheap) Vampire boards out to enough users then it might be just the kick up the bum that AROS 68k needs to become a viable alternative to OS3.x
