>>It's not a bad thing to have an in-house, light footprint OS in constant development, one that incidentally has Amiga 3.1 API capablities to start with (though that also carries its burdens).
>? I wasn't saying anything about this, I was trying to answer ssollie's answer on why a compagny would want to boot into MOS... I just forgot to put an @ssollie above it..
seer, I was not arguing your point, I understood fully who you replied to. I was simply supplying more, along similar lines : }
>>Again, thinking in longer terms, MorphOS has the potential to morph into much more than a legacy replacement with extensions...
>The potential... That's the keyword.. As long as MOS hasn't reached that potential yet (It may be fine for the average home user now, or the non mainstream user) but for a bussiness it's to risky to gamble on a platform this young and unproven.
Understand MorphOS itself is really not the platform here, not what one is required to gamble on. Pegasos is the platform, and solutions built around it may use MorphOS or use a variety of other OSes. And this allows MorphOS to become more than what it currently is. This allows funding, and cross-pollinating. The potential is not entirely dependent on our little neighborhood's buying habits or needs - which I'm sure many will agree is a GOOD thing ; } - though the intention is to meet those long-desired needs and lots more besides... The MorphOS development team LIVES to that ideal and I doubt anybody will change their obstinant work habits or their ideals.
And as far as gambling and risk: if nobody gambles, nobody wins. The spoils will continue to go to the established high rollers for sure then. But rather than fold and take up careers in knitting there are people who would decide to stay at the game. Maybe it is foolish to try, but there you have it - that kind of foolishness is also usually the start of something new. Without trying and persisting where would the bumblebee or the Wright Bros be?
>Like the dual boot Windows "problem", what would you do ? Boot Linux and run major office packages and industry standard software or boot into an "unknown" OS with very little support so far while the competion and "your" would be customers use the industry standard sollutions ?
We really are not shooting at dual boot machines in a world that really won't care. There are many more interesting things that can be done in developer terms and in business terms - with Linux or any other OS - and the Linux community or companies looking at Linux have known this for years. There have been many products and solutions built around Linuxes or BSDs or QNX, etc, and some have succeeded, and others have been promising enough to make it worthwhile to keep trying. That there are communities behind all of these, and even proven businesses to work with already gives us some hope.
Of COURSE we could fail! But it would be even more foregone if we just stopped seeing goals worth achieving.
