Let's see now, you invent a reason to hate them. Nice.
/Björn
"This is what I don't get...
Why on earth would Amiga Inc. be against selling more copies of it's product, AmigaOS 4? If they aren't against this, you could have fooled me!
If I wanted to sell as many copies of AmigaOS 4 as possible I would try to remove as many barriers to using AmigaOS as possible. Having several means for running AmigaOS would make the potential market wider and would also create competition among hardware developers, lowering the cost of adopting AmigaOS.
It seems clear to me that Amiga Inc's problem with bplan et al was not anything they claim it is, but rather the threat that the MorphOS+AmigaOS combo would become superior to AmigaOS on other platforms. This begs the question: so what would be so bad about that?!
Amiga Inc. has some serious problems in the area of testicular fortitude. They are afraid that their so-envisioned contribution to the market is less valuable than bplan's and thus want to commit hara-kari to save face. Instead of choosing to provide better solutions for their potential customers they have decided to 'protect their interests' by restricting the market for their product. Do they really plan to make more money from higher prices in this endeavor? Whatever their screwy plan is I have a feeling it's going to fail, and they will try to drag Amigans down with them.
Lots of expensive software is sold with pirate protections. They use encrypted licenses, polynomial timed licenses, hardware dongles, etc. None of these are any less difficult to bypass than what eyetech has done. What this is *really* about is trying to squash MorphOS, despite how much more useful it could potentially make AmigaOS.
Amiga Inc, you suck"
