@HMetal:
Awfully touchy, aren't we? Why is that? Where did I ever indicate tbat I was disinterested? True, this hardware-bound solution isn't my cup of tea by a long shot, but obviously I have SOME interest in it, or, as you say, I wouldn't have bothered to read or reply to this news item.
Is it some personal affront to you that someone else might care about the product and its progress?
No, and I don't know how you're drawing that inference. My implied question seems clear: why are they bothering to conduct appearance after appearance of an unfinished OS when that time, effort, and money, could be spent on finishing the OS? Is that an invalid question? I've yet to see it answered. Yeah, sure, show off what you got at a show or two, but it seems like they're hitting every venue where 3 or 4 of the faithful just
might show up, while the delivery date slips further and further, if there even is one. Yes, I'd rather have it done right than done by Tuesday, but come on now. How long have we all been waiting for this OS? Has anyone even said for sure it'll come out next year, let alone given a quarter or a month? As more and more folks at least add, if not entirely move over to, other platforms, the lack of this important OS update becomes critical to the survival of the market. Eventually, folks WILL just move on if there's no Amiga OS to run on their A1s. They do come with Linux installed, ya know.
Think for a moment about the people you are affecting by slagging it, the people who develop it. They need to eat too.
Slagging it? I'm asking a question! Could be the greatest thing since sliced raisin toast, but we'll never know until folks actually get their hands on it and running on their own machines. And exactly how are any comments of mine taking food out of their mouths? I'm just one guy with an opinion like everyone else and you don't even know my real name! Wouldn't getting the OS out where folks can buy it do wonders for that food budget? Wouldn't these promotional appearances be all the more effective if they actually have product to SELL after their demos? Wouldn't it be better to put ALL available resources on getting the OS out the door and selling before the market gets any smaller and these folks really ARE in want of their next meal?
Take your anti-AmigaOS agenda somewhere else. Last time I looked, this was amiga.org
So, what? Does that make it an anti-critique zone? Or just someplace where free speech is frowned upon? I've noticed neither situation to be the case and don't imagine it will ever be so. As the Bard had it (or something like it), methinks thou dost protest too much. Are you on the Amiga OS development team? Is that why this slight criticism has set you off? Just me sayin', but if I were you, I wouldn't let the odd yipping dog bother me, much less dignify the yipping with a response. I'd let my code do the talking and redouble my efforts to trot out a kick-ass OS that'd leave the critics in the dust!
Unless, of course, there is some major problem with finishing the OS that'll keep it off shelves for some time to come, which would make this constant touring of the OS the same kind of hubris we've come to expect in the Amiga market. Not that I'm AT ALL saying that this scenario is true, but what Amigan here hasn't been strung along by great-sounding yet ultimately empty promises?
Furthermore, I reject your baseless charge that I am against the Amiga OS. I'm totally against it being chained to a specific computer platform, that much is true, but if an x86-native Amiga OS came out tomorrow (or better yet, the legendary multi-platform Amiga DE), I'd buy it in a New York second! In fact, when I'm wont to dream a bit, I hope that after OS 4 comes out, the next step WILL be an Amiga OS with which I can scorch the chips off this pokey 'Doze box! Not that I have any thing 'pon which to base that hope, but if, or if you prefer, WHEN OS 4 comes out, there'll be at least one less hurdle between me and that near-impossible dream!
