Yes, of course! Now I understand why they try to sell WIntel hardware with the OSses Windblows and Linux! It is because "they show interest to the original Amiga consept"! Why didn't I see that immediately? Stupid me...
Please, get real. Everyone.
We are just a little community of persons who are fond of "the original Amiga consepts", and demonstrating it everyone his/her own way. But the reality is that the AmigaLand is so tiny that can just feed the needs of a few little companies, like A-Eon, Hyperion and ACube, which are forced to overprice their products in order to get their break-even, and maybe to start gaining something to spend in research for future products. People already interested in buying such hardware and software are already here, you won't get any new user outside of the community, nor you'll convince old amigans to get back with a underpowered, "undersoftwared" computer system which costs as much as the fastest super-desktop around and has a fraction of its power (seriously, please don't compare the X1000 with its lowend R700 video card with a 6-core i7 980X with a GeForce GTX480 card, or anyone with a little grey matter will laugh behind you for months, not talking about what you can do with the two systems). When our hardware vendors place a new board on the marker, they produce them in batches of 100s and hope to sell at least a couple of 1000s.
Commodore USA is targeting to the mainstream, looking for all those old Amiga/C64 fans out there that, in the meanwhile, have just switched to PC and followed the Wintel or Linux paths, maybe the Mac one. They are a little company without production facilities, but they are aiming to a wider market, where machines can be produced and sold in order of 10.000s or even more. They don't need AROS, they don't even need WinUAE, they just need a good Linux distribution, with some men-day of work to create a good "Amiga Look" on X11, bundle some applications to surf Google and Facebook, and place an Amiga Forever disc in every box to fullfits all the mainstream needs, even those related to the Amiga legacy with emulation.
But not, they also considered AROS as a potential unique feature for their machines, something that's obvsiously tied to the Amiga roots, which just need some love and some funding to be polished and get better. Something that may put them also in troubles, since Hyperion and Amiga Inc settled for a "non competitive" agreement at the end of their legal struggle. The AROS addition is something they don't urgently need to reach their goals. It's "something more" they have decided to support just because they liked it (thanks to Leo efforts to convince Altman), and because an Amiga without anything similar to AmigaOS would have been... well... like the sky without stars. I think this choice owes a little respect.
Said so, for now there's nothing more than a press release. AROS development proceeds like it always did. AROS compatibility with modern PCs are manily due to Steve and Pascal economic efforts. AROS pros and cons are always the same. Nothing changed, and nothing will change if Commodore USA releases its products. Maybe we'll gain a broader audience, maybe they will just erase the SFS partition to get space for Windows, maybe we'll get some money to help development, but one thing is sure, AROS will always be at service of the whole Amiga community, being it this one or enlarged.
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