Status report on AmigaOS 4.2 development

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Development cost of roughly 100K euro per year since 2001 i.e. 12 years and running, expensive lawsuits (500K litigation cost).

Sorry but the shareholders are going to sit this one out and you can be glad that they do because they are the ones funding AmigaOS 4.x development for over a decade without any financial return.

I don't understand how SOMEONE is not making any money considering the high cost of the hardware. I can't imagine anyone dumping 100,000 euro x12 years + 500k euro into a losing business. Makes no sense, but then welcome to amiga.

I wonder how much more money MORPHOS made than them then?

[haywirepc]

aCube manufactures PPC bords for industrial purpose, if they could manu. Lots of useless thing could be removed and make boards more cheaper.facture bords just for just for Amiga user, I would say that price would lower.

Everyone keeps saying that, but everyone has yet to find ONE person or company who bought one of those boards for any purpose other than amiga
os4...


No really, if people are using them for industrial purposes, where?

There are 150 boards for embedded applications that are 1/10th of the price. No one in their right mind would buy these for a manufacturing business, factory,automation, or any other industrial purpose. I CALL BULL**** on these being for anything other than running os4.

And nothing personal, I just call bull**** because people keep saying this but no one in how many years has been able to show me or anyone else
any company or even individual who used one of these boards for industrial applications. Sure maybe someone did, but its not a volume larger
then the volume they sold for os4 users. They won't release sales figures... or even any examples of people using them for their "so called" main purpose.

Why is that?

[haywirepc]

They're probably keeping their real business separated from the Amiga related crap. If they do consulting, they could be selling their kit along with their services and you'd never hear about it. They have to be making money somewhere, I don't see how they could survive just from servicing the HyperionOS crowd.
Of course they do that  I can imagine what would happend if they would say that "our biggest customer is XXX"

Oh come on, thats a bunch of bull****. Not one person in the amiga community has in how many years now seen of or heard of any of these boards in any company, project or place in the world besides for running amiga OS?

I hate to be cynical but I think that story is just a bull**** story to justify charging so much for them. The whole thing makes no sense. "This boards are primarily for embedded applications" Yet no one I know, in the computer world,electronics world, robotics world, manufacturing world,(besides even the amiga community) has ever seen one, heard of one, or used one?

I STILL call bull**** on that story until someone shows me someone besides an
amiga fan using one for any other reason than to run AOS4 on it.

Yep, I STILL call bull****.