@DoodooHead
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Before the World Wide Web, when Commodore was involved were you whining about their licensing scheme? Did you constantly complain to your friends and neighbors about how horrible it was that you had to buy an Amiga computer to get a copy of Amiga OS?

I'm not sure if you know this, but the Amiga used unique custom hardware which was not found on any other system. That pretty much limited the use of AOS to those who had an Amiga because AOS was designed to work only with that custom hardware. There was no reason to try to run AOS on a PC, for example, because there was no PC which contained the custom hardware AOS required.

According to Hyperion there is no technical reason OS4 couldn't run on hardware besides the A1, and it's only because they agreed to a dead-end licensing scheme that OS4 is tied to a boat anchor. Aside from a broken bus controller, there isn't anything proprietary about the A1, and supposedly the HAL in OS4 makes OS4 more portable. Hence it should be possible for OS4 to run on a variety of hardware. People working for Hyperion have made this claim in the past.

Since there was a technical reason why AmigaOS couldn't run on other hardware, but the only thing preventing OS4 from running on other hardware is a license, some people see that as an issue. There was no reason to complain about AmigaOS being tied to the Amiga, because it simply wouldn't run on anything else available at the time. The same is not true of OS4.

Hope this helps clear things up for you.

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