It's quite interesting to see how personally some people can take comments questioning business pragmatism. It's also interesting to see how far some of us have fallen, from having the classic Amiga as the benchmark to having Amiga Inc's 5 years of waste as the benchmark. In which case, any new thing is automatically deserving of our utmost and unquestionable devotion.
Here's another marketing term everyone should be familirar with, be it consumers or producers, free or for profit; Consumer Confidence.
Moving OS4 to x86 would be a large undertaking, I estimate that it would take $1M. The kind of money that hasn't been invested in the Amiga for a long time. The kind of money that people immediately understand to be serious, beyond the mere vanity and hobby interest. At $75 a pop Mr Hermans would need 13,333 buyers to make the investment back. With hardware costing in the realm of $500 rather than $1,500 I bet you'd find a lot more interested buyers.
That, my fellow Amigans is what I would consider an 'Ambitious Project', one that actually builds new products and consumer confidence.
