Glaucus wrote:
There is one chance, and it's a long shot... I heard rumors that MS is interested in re-releasing their OS on a PPC chip. If true (which I doubt, but anything is possible) it could totally change the PPC market and finally allow AmigaOS to run on semi-mainstram hardware for once.
So? That semi-mainstream hardware would still have to be sold by a "special" licensed vendor
outside that semi-mainstream, if you want to run AmigaOS on it.
And there
is semi-mainstream PPC consumer hardware today. Macs. Though that doesn't help us. Not because it can't help us, but because it's not ALLOWED to help us, and then I'm not talking about Apple but the compan(y|ies) that supposedly would have an interest in improving AmigaOS sales and market size.
And now -- depending on what the hell Hare really meant -- on top of the already sh|tty
but reversible situation, it seems like Eyetech(!) are to be involved in the decisions about on which hardware AmigaOS4+ is to run on and who's to be granted a licence to sell us other people's hardware!
In other words, AmigaOS would not only have been fscked-up like I thought, but Fscked-Up
Beyond Repair.
Other than amusing a thousand or so people who are prepared to buy insanely overpriced and underperforming new hardware from a company like Eyetech, the AmigaOS project has been rendered pointless. It's not a rebirth or even life support for AmigaOS. It's possibly a slight deceleration of the fall.
Regarding "in-house development" of "an Internet OS" or whatever, I'll believe it when I see it, and right now there is no reason whatsoever to believe that anyone will ever see it. That's unless you count "bbbbut AInc said so!" as a reason...
