MarkTime wrote:
How much is Amiga charging in licensing per unit on AmigaOne boards, $50 dollars?
Amiga is trying to collect its revenues from hardware sales, because at $50 bucks a pop, or whatever the actual number works out too it is going to be hard to hide that fee in anything but a large purchase.
I think we all want to cut Amiga right out of that income stream without any regrets...that doesn't mean we want to pirate OS 4 or not allow Hyperion, or even Amiga, Inc. to profit from OS 4.
But burying a huge fee in the teron board, which they didn't develop and won't be developing, ever....I don't care for that, I'd rather buy a terrasoft board. You can sell me os 4, if you want, in which case I'll buy it, if you won't sell it to me, don't fault me for not purchasing it.
Do you know wether they charge anything at all? If so, do you know wether they charge per board or as a single one-time fee? If you don't have the answers, stop spreading this FUD. Yes, it is FUD as in Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. End of story.
Amiga Inc. making money on the brand... LOL! I just can't help myself from laughing everytime I see this weird conspiracy theory popping up on Amiga forums. I mean, how much do you expect them to make out of a nearly extinct and forgotten trademark? Do you really think M$, the most profitable IT business in the world, would strike partership deals with them if they were to be such pathetic swindlers? Yes, they have broken a few release dates, I know. But, does that really make them swindlers that is just trying to make some money out of owning the trademark? I'm sorry but the trademark cost them a whole lot more than they will ever make on trademark licence fees or whatever. It probably won't even pay the interest on the loan. No, the licensing issue is only about protecting their IP from IP thieves like ... sorry, I don't even want make them the favor of mentioning their name here. I think most of us knows what I'm talking about anyway... :roll:
Back to reality, guys. Amiga Inc. and their revolutionary plans of creating a complete new scalable, hardware independent platform and operating environment, has given third parties the ability to continue the classic Amiga product line of hardware and OS. Do you really think the success or downfall of these third party products will effect their plans and/or outcome at all? Do you even see a reason for why Amiga Inc would care about any of this at all if it wasn't for the fact that it is their IP? They wouldn't. The licensing scheme is for protecting the IP against certain illwilling companies out there (you know who), not because they think they will make a fortune from licensing fees.
$50 bucks for each sold board in licensing fees? LOL! Where do people get all this from, really?