Let's just say that Seehund might find out that Hyperion/Amiga/Eyetech are not the only ones wanting to charge money for the privilege of running an operating system.
Well duh! Is this Obvious Day?
The problem is not wanting to be payed for the software one sells. I thought everyone agreed on this much at least. The problem is IMO
how one expects to sell as many copies of the software as possible, and inventing an "Amiga hardware" market for third party hardware that has nothing to do with the company|ies publishing/making AmigaOS, and making sales of AmigaOS dependent on such a thing, and that unlike Windows, AmigaOS is not a commercially attractive enough OS for hardware vendors to even consider getting a license - with all the prerequisites there are for that - only to be "allowed" to compete on such a miniscule, restricted and saturated "market".
At least we only want to charge A1 users and our OS is proprietary and developed by ourselves.
(It would of course be better if you only wanted to charge
AmigaOS users regardless of whom they buy their hardware from, but I think I've said that before...
)
So why did you write that? Does TSS want to charge YDL users of
other hardware than Teron boards, or what?
Field day? Yeah, you'll hear an I-told-you-so or two
but Schadenfreude (that word is used in English too, right?) isn't my cup of tea, at least not when it would be because of bad things happening to something I wish to be successful - AmigaOS.
