My tea comment was halfway facetious.
My point is;
IF Apollo Team decided today to go down the AOS route, and thru agreement ends up having to add 20-40 dollars to the Vampire; I still would find the accelerator DIRT cheap and well worth the money.
Gunnar has expressed rather clearly that he wants the ability to develop more advanced features, and as such, I would ASSUME any agreement regarding AOS would entail development of AOS/P96 in one form or another.
Im not privy to the details of the discussion, but I have gotten the impression that Gunnar havent found the details in the agreement satisfactory from his point of view. Thats fine. I wont villify the other side of the discussion got that reason.
Apollo Team got options if they decide against licensing, which is fine with me too, just as an AOS route would be.
Im not fundamentally against developers getting money for their work, which some seems to be.
Code that is paid for can also be Free and/or Open too.
But that's a separate issue to companies demanding we pay again for something we already own.
The law is on the side of the consumer, we would be fully within our rights to demand a refund of the cost of any unwanted bundled Kickstart ROM just as we can do with bundled copies of Windows or OS4 (In the case of buying an Acube 460 mobo for example).
Certain grumpy people who shall remain nameless might not like this but it's the law and there is sweet FA they can do about it except throw their toys out of the pram or take their ball home.
