"Genesi are the ones not allowing AmigaOS4 to be ported to their board...."
OK fair enough, that was a typing error. I went back and corrected it now. It was supposed to be AmigaOS4 port to be sold with their board.
No I'm not gonna search the whole net for a few quotes,
Then you cannot claim to have substantiated your assertion.
but you can
explain to my why the A1 cost more than a Teron from TerraSoft ?
Straying from the point somewhat eh?
Firstly this was because the Vendor ( in this case Eyetech ) can order in volume and resell cheaper than an individual board purchase from the manufacturers, but now a market has been opened up in theory ( interest shown on Slashdot etc ) then other vendors are in on the act who expect to sell in greater numbers so the base board costs less from them. Simple economics. If you are prepared to put in a volume order or the manufacturer believes they are going to sell in volume then the marketing evaluation of the price will drop significantly.
Or how AInc is gonna make some money on this when the OS-licence
is free and they are getting very little for OS4 itself (according to Ben H.).
I don't know. I can speculate it is because AInc don't expect to make money on AOS4 and see it is an effort to keep a developer community there that was slipping away and probably still will. Perhaps it is a loss leader. I am nothing to do with Amiga Inc however so I can do nothing more than speculate. I am certainly not an Amiga Inc apologist.
AInc should decide what they want:
a) Sell A1/OS4 as "full" systems, which limits them to HW-vendors
very close to them.
Looks like they have done (a).
b) Sell OS4 for "every suitable HW" which is impossible with the current licence.
Not really impossible, hindered maybe. If you think there is a suitable HW platform out there and you are prepared to pay or do the porting then you can license it for that HW if you have a business plan. This is the real world of business deals in a tight market Kronos. You have to be able to walk the talk and all that.
The Pegasos is Genesi's product, and they decide to whom they sell it under what conditions.
whilst decrying others who take exactly the same stance. Like below.
OS4 is(will be) AIncs/Hyperion#s product and THEY decide how they are
gonna sell it. And not HW-vendors refusing to sign a licence
Ill sign the license AND PAY FOR THE PORT but it is GENESI that are PREVENTING ME ... THE VENDOR ... FROM DOING SO IN A RESALE AGREEMENT SEE ALL MY POSTS UP TO NOW.
Sorry to shout but I don't seem to be getting through to you quite what limitations Genesi is putting on prospective vendors. I don't give a flying f**k if Genesi don't want to sign up but they are stopping all resellers from signing up. They are in effect dictating how the "Pegasos" can be resold, in fact deliberately it appears to stop AOS4 and Pegasos bundles from appearing on the market.
But thats all just rethorics, cos the current situation allows
Genesi's market-share to grow, and it will be very hard for OS4
to compensate that headstart without compromising on the licence.
I don't think compromising on the license has anything to do with it. Getting a product out of the door has EVERYTHING to do with it.
MorphOS will either be a passing phase or it will become the competitor OS to AmigaOS. It will only dominate the Amiga market IF no copies of AmigaOS4 appear this year.
