Does Hyperion own the rights to OS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9?

[Franko]

I'm going to be blunt about this. Sit down, take a deep breath: Amiga has no future. PPC is as much a dead end arch (as far as the desktop goes) as 68k is. AROS will probably carry on thanks to it being OSS, but really, it's time as anything other than a hobby machine for people who grew up with it and those handful with a retro fetish is long gone.

Who said they should? But perhaps rather than trying to break out "new future" Amigas, we should enjoy using them in the same way people enjoy classic cars.

In know you say that perhaps we should enjoy our Amigas the way people enjoy classic cars,which up to a point is fair comment, but in the same breath you say the Amiga has no future. If the Amiga has no future then why do Hyperion continue to develop OS 4.X, or A-eon develop the X1000, or why is the Natami or the Minimig still being developed, not to mention Aros and all the other people working on other projects continue to do so.

For the simple reason no matter what the size of the user base the Amiga is far from dead and will continue in one form or another for many years to come. If you have such a pessimistic  outlook on the Amiga why do you bother with the Amiga at all.

Since Commodore went belly up in 94 and all the crap that has happened in the years since, the Amiga community and those still developing in one way or another for it have proven all those pessimists wrong. There can't be many other computer systems (if any) that so long after the last machine rolled of the production line still has folk developing for it and a never ending enthusiasm for it such as the Amiga community has shown.

I just find it difficult to understand why someone like yourself who's past has shown such a great passion for the Amiga feels now that the Amiga has no future at all...

[Franko]

Maybe to certain folk the Amiga is nothing more than a hobby, but to me it has been and always will be my only main computer system for well over 20 years, simply put it does everything I need a computer to do

Now that I've found out from various folk here just what I need to get my Amiga online, all I have to do now is buy the netcard and this iMac that I've only had for a few months to see what the internet was all about can go to someone else who has a use for it...

[Franko]

I honestly would hang onto the iMac, just in case your miggy misbehaves.

You have a point their, might be a good idea even though I reckon I've enough old hardware to last me until I kick the bucket, but you never know...

Just wish that some folk, while I respect their rights to air their points of view on the Amiga situation, would understand that there are still a few (very few!!!) of us that the Amiga does all that we require from a computer...

[Franko]

*sigh*

Racial stereotype, much?

This may come as a surprise, but most people in India have never heard of Vindaloo or most of the other curry dishes you may be familiar with.

Completely of the real subject matter, but interesting non the less, a few interesting facts about Curries...

The word Vindaloo is actually Portuguese in origin. Most Indian curry's that we eat here in Britain especially Vindaloo are generally not eaten at all by the Indian community. Same applies to the Chinese currie, most chinese wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

What we in the UK call a currie is a derivative of what the Chinese and Indian Immigrants began selling when most of them came here in the late 50s and 60s. They adapted their traditional cuisine to suit the pallets of the natives here whom had soon became their main customer base.

Still I'm glad they did as it's my favorite food, I have 6 Chinese curries per week and 3 Indian curries, lovely jubbly....

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