Framiga,
they (Eyetech) CAN'T economically face the expences for all the fixes, period . . . its not so difficult to understand!!!
However irrelevant to current or future customers, that's quite possible.
But then they should not have been granted a licence by AInc to sell hardware for use with AmigaOS, as all licensees would "
have to develop and resource a full customer solution, with guarantees on product quality, delivery, and most important of all post sales support, with firm commitments to repair, replacement and turnaround". Also see the first link Itix posted above, where "fleecy" again reaffirms readers of the marvellous protection that a 60% price increase will give the consumer. If they can't even live up to what's required as a minimum by consumer laws (at least in the EU), one would have to question if they have any business selling anything at all, much less something that you pay extra for to get presumably (otherwise what's the point?)
even better "protection".
As we have seen too damn many times by now, the licence requirement is utterly worthless to us AmigaOS users. It's even got
negative worth, IMO.
It's been made apparent that Eyetech, who allegedly is just another licensee on equal terms with anybody else, never have had to live up to any of the licensing requirements as they were officially advertised. These contributors to inventing the compulsory licensing scheme in the first place naturally do not want more licensees, so neither do apparently AInc (provided AInc actually have a will or interest of their own in the matter).
Otherwise
another dealer would be selling the same Terons cheaper now, especially considering that they could actually offer
externally insured customer support.
Otherwise the "ARIANA" from AHT Europe (who recently announced their presence at CeBIT and AROS support)
could have been called "Amiga 700", running AmigaOS4.
The thing that sucks the most IMO is that AmigaOS4 and "all future versions" have artificially been made dependent on and linked to all this fricking de-facto-monopoly pseudo-market
let's-pretend-there's-still-Amiga-hardware bull-dung.
This is where I'm supposed to post
the usual link for those who would like to see some changes.
