Yeah, but how do you make the money back? Software is flexible, hardware has to be sold quickly.
Also, $50 mil dumped into PPC hardware != $50 mil into hardware that already exists. Why spend tons of money to get some idealistic ball-and-chain that is only marginally better than a very well-tested solution that already sells by the hundreds of thousands? Be coudn't hack it, and that was before the big venture into "integration" that cut x86 motherboard manufacturing costs drasticly while adding tons of standard features.
Exactly. It's a waste of time and money to do something that already existing in very cheap quantities. I guess it's human nature to deny reality of a situation and a wanting to return to yesteryear. Unless one can squeeze in the capabilities of a $3K desktop into a $500 desktop but then your still missing the applications for the OS.
So it's not millions to invest, but we are talking *billions* and I don't see any one with that type of pocket change wanting to carry on R&D for OS4, MOS, or AROS.
Dammy
