As far as corporate prospects are concerned, if you're concerned about future stability, Genesi is certainly in much better shape than Amiga, Inc. and Hyperion. They have income sources in other industries (airline security, as I understand it), and their product line looks like it could be pretty diverse. Watching how Bill Buck has money to throw at promotion and so on, it's hard to argue on this one.
Is that so! Amiga also have income outside the Amiga industry. So do Hyperion! When the AmigaOne and OS 4 are ready in quantities we don't need advertising. The WORD is enough to jump start a chain reaction in news sites.
It's interesting that a lot of Amigans, who generally think of themselves as independent thinkers, are now putting down these other "rebels" who've started up their own thing without the official blessing. I don't see much free thinking when people are definite about a product choice when they haven't even had their hands on either option.
It's just like you said. History! And the fact is that history proves Hyperion delivers. These are NOT stupid people. Not only that; there are 30 of the best programmers working on the AmigaOS. They all know what we like in the AmigaOS.
We all like what VisualPrefs can do so something like it is implemented (well, there are always a few that don't).
We must keep in perspective here. Hyperion started working on OS 4 much later then those people on MorphOS so it would have been a miracle if these guys were ready on the same time.
Hyperion also won't sell anything untill it is sufficiently stable. There will always be bugs and quirks! You will only iron out most of those if your working on CMM level 5. Then you need 500 programmers and 5 years to bring out OS 4.
