Do you want the AmigaOne X1000 project to fail?

[Karlos]

Who wants someone's positive effort to fail?

Precisely. You'd have to be pretty mean-spirited to want someone's hard efforts to bring hardware to the market to be in vain.

[Karlos]

Hold it, Hold it a bit there mister...

The X-files was a terrific show for the first couple of seasons. Later they became repetitive(government, aliens, aliens, government...)

I can't disagree with that. The show was far more entertaining when it was a different story every week with the occasional recurring character (Eugene Victor Tombs, for example). The whole alien conspiracy thing grew very boring very quickly.

Fringe has sort of picked up the original flavour to a degree, though you have to suspend your disbelief since many of the ideas are so far-fetched...

[Karlos]

I can't really understand the attitude of those (admittedly few if the poll is to be believed) that want it to fail. Not liking OS4 is fine if you prefer the alternatives, but Trev seems a decent bloke that's put a his time, effort and cash into the project.

Believing it is too expensive and will surely fail as a consequence is a fair opinion but wanting it to fail is just spiteful, plain and simple.

[Karlos]

@Franko

Huh?

[Karlos]

When a you start a poll you have the option to make the voters names show up in the poll, so instead of being optional can't it be made so that whatever a person votes on their name shows up beside their chosen vote... simples...

Anonymous ballots are a cornerstone of our democracy, I heard

[Karlos]

So we want a 2000 dollar "hobby system" or do we want a system worthy of establishing itself as a new mainstream OS and taking out Windows on the desktop?

If Apple could do it so could we, but without strong leadership we are going nowhere.

I'm sorry, I must have missed the point in history where apple "took out Windows on the desktop". Could you enlighten us as to when that actually happened? I think someone must have forgotten to inform those many system manufacturers that are still shipping PCs pre-installed with Windows that this OS is no longer relevant, to say nothing of people building their own :lol:

[Karlos]

Errm Karlos, are you sure he didn't mean "taking on Windows" as in making an os that is competitive with Windows like Apple did

They did? Last time I checked, there were vastly more Windows installations out there than OSX ones, totalling around 85% of the "web client" market share*. Might have something to do with the fact that Windows, for all it's many sins, isn't tied to a single hardware vendor.

*this is basically a measurement based on browser user agent strings, which isn't that reliable due to spoofing (and other issues), but should be roughly ball-park. If anything, the figure is likely to be higher since many business PCs running windows are operating behind strict firewall rules that limit their access or are blocked from accessing the internet all together.

[Karlos]

Apple shipped more than PC sales recently in the USA IIRC.

The legacy of Win-PC dominance will take ages to topple.

How do you even measure PC sales? Everybody I know builds their own, at least when it comes to their home systems,

[Karlos]

In the end though, it doesn't matter. "amiga' in whatever form it takes doesn't need to topple anything. It just needs to survive.

Truesay.