Alan Redhouse Interviewed

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What's worse? Her not being "positive", or her being realistic and accurate?

uh.. what are you, drunk?  How can you possible take his comments regarding HOPING that they make inroads to china as "China adores me."  Perhaps you should stick to Scandiavian language boards, becuase you don't seem to have too firm a grasp on English just yet.

"In the interests of the existing Amiga community we absolutely have to broaden the market for the A1 technology [my emphasis] and for OS4, even if that involves using Linux as a trojan horse. [...] that responsibility is, for the moment at least, mainly falling on Eyetech's shoulders."

Yup, that's the sorry state AmigaOS has been put in. It's intentionally been made dependent on how well one dealer can sell a particular motherboard. Of course, this was probably meant to be interpreted as a Good Thing here. It's "in the interest of the Amiga community" that we should buy our hardware via Eyetech.

Who else is making PoP boards besides Genesi and Eyetech/Mai?  Jesus Krispy Kreme Christ, look out the goddamn window!  Amiga is going to *have* to piggyback on top of technology like this to get affordable hardware.  Do you think Genesi could make it on just their PPC boards alone?  Of course not.  Their rolling their IP into stuff like STB's where they can actually MAKE SOME MONEY.  Eyetech/Amiga must do the same.

To paraphrase our esteemed colleage bhoggett:  "please try to use your head.  It's so very important."

I'm not in *either* camp.  Not Red, nor Blue.  The Red guys can be over-enthusiastic at times, but you Blue-campers come up with the most ridiculous excuses for reasoning sometimes.  Get a clue.  
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Thank you for clearly explaining your position.  And while I agree with you on some of these points, I take issue with:

There's the problem! It ought to simply be "AmigaOS, and whatever hardware it runs on." We shouldn't have to give a damn about who resells the hardware, whether they sell it bundled with something, or what they choose to call their hardware. We shouldn't have to "support" any particular vendor just because they chose to resell a piece of hardware using an "Amiga" name

That would be nice, wouldn't it?  Unfortunately these are the way deals are struck, and while Genesi's hardware is a bit less expensive,  an "A1" isn't that bad.  Remember how much an A4000T cost new?   And running AOS on Apple hardware is possible, but not really feasible, since support would b non-existant.

The west is simply dominated by x86.  If PPC can make inroads in China, that opens up the door not just for eyetech, but for anyone making PPC boards.  And if China starts making their own PPC boards, so much the better.. competion bring the price down for everyone.  

Remember, the compulsory licensing is to govern hardware availability for us for "all future versions of AmigaOS", according to AInc. Ergo: AmigaOS has been thoroughly fµcked.

Can you support this claim with credible evidence?  Everyone likes to bash on this point, but while Fleecy will speak out regarding this, I've never seen BBRV produce anything stating this isn't true.  Can you direct me to evidence suggesting otherwise?

I apologize for being quite so harsh.  I think it was JoannaK's post right before yours that set me off.