Now I know that buying AmigaOS products (software and hardware) is helping the Amiga development (software and hardware)
Well then, I'll keep an eye on what
Commodore makes of their
Workbench 5 thing. AFAIK, Commodore is the only one who will release a real
Amiga (TM) product (unlike "amigaone" or whatever). If it becomes something suitable for HTPC, I'll definitely consider an
Amiga 1000 from them to put in my living room. Commodore seems to be a paying customer to the Amiga IP owner, an honorable behavior, unlike the pack behind "AmigaOS/AmigaOne" who more or less robbed Amiga through a dirty and calculated scheme spanning over several years. I don't really care if Commodore is basing Workbench 5 on Linux. In fact, that makes sense in a way, seen from their point of view.
For my *real* Amiga needs, I'll continue to use MorphOS. That one is the leanest, fastest and most elegant Amiga option ever made, it's probably very similar to what Amiga had been today, hadn't Commodore gone bankrupt. It's Amiga Done Right! It has the highest performance, the best and most advanced features, the best Amiga standards integrated, the best Amiga compatibility, etc. It's the cleanest and purest Amiga NG implementation; the developers carefully follow the Amiga spirit and API literally, not figuratively, unlike "the others" who breaks Amiga compatibility and introducing alien API's and applications in an ad-hoc manner as they go by, seemingly striving towards creating a new Linux distro of it (but naturally without USB2 support, etc, since being incomplete and inferior is their signature). And you aren't forced to purchase a €1,000 dongle for it (meaning the only supported HW if you didn't get that), costing 10x-30x the money while offering by far inferior performance.
Buying "amigaos/amigaone" products only helps prolonging this irrational madness; that products "must" be ridiculously expensive, that Amiga compatibility doesn't matter, that performance isn't important, that the left-over Amiga standards (after MorphOS picked the best) are the best way to go, that being forever beta is perfectly OK. And even worse, it will only bring more of the dirty legal crap games played by their central figure Ben Hermans. All in all, the day he and his mediocre Linux Game Porting company (because that's what Hyperion is, a mediocre Linux Game Porting company) entered the Amiga scene and sent the Frieden brothers on a university crash course in OS development was indeed a very sad one. Their persistent online FUD games, community splitting efforts and apartheid websites is what brought the platform to its sad state. They use their bogus trade marks to feed weak-minded and blind brand-name followers with vastly over-priced yet inferior products of sub-standard quality and performance. And there is actually a crowd (albeit small and diminishing) cheering this, like this "drHirudo" fellow above is an example of. I however wouldn't for my life put any money whatsoever in that direction. I would feel dirty if I did.
