Interview with A-Eon's Trevor Dickinson

[nicholas]

Thanks, maybe if Trevor offers one of the X2000 boards (or better two) to the MorphOS team they will consider it.
After all, they don't seem adverse to porting to the SAM460.

We'd probably get stuck with limited video card support though (R500 maybe).

Bounty to buy a beta board for a MorphOS developer?

Why should the MOS-Team port their OS to his hardware for free?

Just saying!

[nicholas]

Trevor does not want to make competition to Acube (even if he could). He will make it more expensive to protect Acubes hardware sales (he mentioned something like that)

Then he isn't a very good businessman if that's his attitude.

[nicholas]

all I care about is he's a passionate amiga user 1'st and that to date he has done what he has said he would do:) ..now if certain 'businessmen' had accomplished half of what he has done for the Amiga community then.....you get the drift;)

Bill Buck acheived a hell of a lot more for our community but he was driven away by the pitch fork weilding village idiots.

[nicholas]

Bill would still be willing to do something for the community (which shows his forgiving nature).

Oh no, he's the devil incarnate.  How dare he fund the best coders our community had to write a modern OS for us and on top of that fund the development of quality hardware at decent prices.  The icing on the cake that proves he is indeed Satan is that he even gave away hardware for free to developers.

The very cheek of the man. How dare he indeed?

[nicholas]

Please remind me of this case.

Are you serious?

[nicholas]

Oh I see, perhaps you can create a new computer that will be made specifically for all Amiga camps and then one could triple boot into his/her preferred OS on the same computer AND you can do this for $500 (+ taxes of course)

Bill Buck did.  For less money too.

[nicholas]

'DID' is the operative word.

He's still quite willing to do it all again and release the mobo design under an open licence.

He's just not willing to fund it himself so there's a bounty on power2people website.

[nicholas]

Some people seem to have selective memory. Don't find the reference anymore but Buck hasn't all MorphOS developers, one of them even released Ambient under GPL as reaction.

I know English isn't your first language so I'll forgive you for missing nuances.

Buck did (Past tense) fund MorphOS development.
Buck then stopped paying quite a few of them later on.

None of this detracts from the fact that he did fund the best coders we had/have to write an OS for us and also funded cheap quality hardware for us to run it on.

The village idiots around these parts chased him and the MOS-Team away, this is a fact.

[nicholas]

Well I'm speechless ...
Old Macs are good enough for me , Morphos is fast enough OS on G4 ...
And you're right , you clearly have much better idea about this than
me ... You will probably get less users than Trevor though , he has the
advantage of am Amiga name ... I'm really done now ...

Nope it has the name 'AmigaOS'. They have no right to use the name 'Amiga'. Not even 'Amiga OS'.

[nicholas]

What PPC have enough power? The used Macs are not getting faster over time I assume and the new "Super-Amigas" also have "Super-Prices" and are much more expensive at the time. And then try to sell these systems to users outside the community. Propably there are reasons why MorphOS is hardly selling licenses with only few new users. It has reached the end of line. The same is for AmigaOS. They are exploiting the existing market to the limit but they will win no new users. Further stagnation and a slow decline. That is at least not my ideal and vision of the future but others seem to be accepted that, me not.

The blame for that lies squarely at the feet of Bill McEwen and Ben Hermans.

MorphOS could have been Amiga OS4 back in 2000 and there would have been no split, the Q/Box would probably have been a fully functioning OS by now and a transition to commodity x86 hardware may have come about.

We will never know now due to the greed and incompetence of those two men.

All in my not so humble opinion of course.

[nicholas]

... and BBRV

How so?

BBRV had nothing to do with MOS until after Bill McEwen decided not to use it as OS4 on the advice of the proven liar Ben Hermans.