I am amazed that this discussion still rages on. The SAM460EX comes with AmigaOS 4.1 (you have to buy it that way) and will probably never run MorphOS.
And the G4 Macs and the 460EX are, at similar clock speeds, virtually on par with each other in terms of performance.
Why is there such unnecessary friction betwen these two camps?
Acube won't even sell this board without AOS4 unless you are one of their 'industrial partners.
Why can't we just leave this one alone?
If I had to cast a guess I'd say it's simply because various people in either camp see any progress in their counterpart camp(s) as a threat to their interests.
You'll rarely see a forum conversation about the benefits of MorphOS that don't end up with a long list of points about it's superiority to OS4. Likewise, you'll not see a conversation about the benefits of OS4 without it being the "legitimate" successor being used as arguments against MorphOS. It's as if advocates on either side can't actually extol the benefits of their preferred platform in isolation.
In the end, the
only people on the planet with even the slightest interest in using either MorphOS or OS4 are existing/former Amiga users. If I were a gambling man (which I'm not but nevertheless...), I'd put money on there not a single soul in either camp having come from the "outside" with no prior Amiga experience.
That makes a very small market for your product, in which a sale for the "other guy" almost always represent a loss of a sale for you (except for those of us that actually want both). In that environment, I guess you have to expect a degree of competition bashing - it's a basic survival strategy.
If you want to see an end to this nonsense, we'll all have spread cash (and love) and buy both
