CommodoreUSA CEO Interview Answers

[OlafS3]

+1

In my views he has clearly stated that he has no interest in the community, has not invested in any camp and will not invest because it is "wasting money". So we now know about their attitudes. Nothing that would make change my mind. Aros is already getting combined with Linux and that is much more amiga and much cheaper than any of their solutions...

[OlafS3]

I have shortly read the paragraphs regarding the existing community and it is clear that they have not invested anything and will not ("waste of money"). Aros would be the only interesting for them (X86) but they are not allowed to do (AmigaInc/Hyperion) and because of that they will never invest just one cent in it. All 68k projects are interesting but they will not invest, PPC is not interesting and they would never invest in a port of AOS or MorphOS and besides they want to control the OS. Therefore all closed source OSs are not interesting. So we know what we all can expect of them. Nothing. What I do not understand why they keep on trying to get on amigasites in the news if they are not interested in the community.

[OlafS3]

I am not your opinion. By donating money f.e. for bounties they would have shown their good will and the interest in the community. By not doing so they show that the community is not interesting for them (except that they want find "crazies" that buy their products just because of brand names)

[OlafS3]

"One thing I do agree with him saying "there are better causes out there"."

ok, but why call it "Amiga" then? And when you talk about it, I have a used notebook at home with Kubuntu for 110 EUR, why spending so much money for his overprized hardware?

[OlafS3]

they want to compete on the mass market with their "Commodore Amigas" and in this case it is relevant. But it has really nothing to do with the past and the existing community. Amiga was a innovative combination of OS and hardware that was clearly differentiating from the other platforms. That is not the case with their products, even if they lower their prices.

[OlafS3]

there might be some truth in it what you say. But I think they would be better off when they had only used "Commodore" and built PC with preinstalled Aros. And when they not install anything "amigian" on it, their products are not interesting for the community. And outside people look at the price and will not buy it just because the label on it. "Amiga" is still recognized by many but not so important that people pay every price...

[OlafS3]

You are really not right there. Hyperion, MorphOS-team, the Aros-community and many 68k developer/user share the same ideas (however the OS is called). It would be nice if hardware and software bundles based on Amiga-API would be sold under "Amiga" but that is not priority. I have a used Notebook at home (2 Ghz+, 1 GB Ram) for just 100 EUR with Kubuntu installed. I see no big difference to their products right now (except that the components are "slightly" better and the label on it). Is there anything innovative on it (hardware and/or software)? No! Does 68k software run on it? No! Is it based in any way on the Amiga API? No! Do they support the community in any way? No! ("waste of money"). Do they have any serious intentions to do something with any of the camps? No! The only "yes" I can imagine... Do they want our money? Yes! As long as they do not have serious offers for us they should leave us our peace. They want to make money with the brand name? Fine. We cannot do anything against it. But as long as they have nothing interesting to offer (in our sense) they are only wasting our time.

[OlafS3]

It might be that the community is only a (very) small part of the world but most of the world outside does not remember amiga (and will not pay premium prices for the brand) or is remembering amiga but already uses computers (and will not pay premium for the brand either). As long as CUSA has nothing new and innovative to offer the brand is more or less worthless.

[OlafS3]

+1

They made false promises and tried to be something they are not. They are only a very small company that acquired the right to sell PCs with "Amiga" on it. They have nothing innovative or special to offer (not even a special case) and their products are overprized. For me they are simply not interesting, I do noone of them wish something bad or "hate" but I do not care either and will certainly buy nothing from them. I think they were "hot" to get the brand but they had (and have) no product they can credible sell (something new/innovative). Mostly companies have products but no brand (and marketing). In both cases it fails...

[OlafS3]

"utter bull**** questions", "shut the **** up", "you guys are a buch of screwed up dellusional nut jobs" ...

Please act and communicate politely and civilised here, even on internet people should not be different to normal life or is this the way you always talk to other people?

I do not understand what you talk about between all those "ass****" phrases... We all know that there is a big outside world but Barry and his company do not serious play in this league. Selling is satisfying consumer needs. What need are they satisfying? To have a amiga-sticker on a case? People are not as stupid as some seem to think...