@Atheist

Please stop trolling!

If you have any issues with what is being posted, why not contact an amigaworld moderator and have them deal with it? Better yet, why not become a moderator yourself?

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@Atheist

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And what does that mean? Is it really Amiga Inc.'s or yours?

I imagine he's referring to Amiga, Inc.'s closing down amiga.org's Cafe Press web shop recently. Isn't that well known by now?

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Still trying to get AOS4.0(x) for US$4.50 per licensed copy to ONLY those who request it at time of purchase?

That was the price in the old AmigaAnywhere negotiations, wasn't it? I don't think it has anything to do with anything today. I assume if AOS4 did run on Pegs, Hyperion would get the full sales price of the OS. Amiga, Inc. would get whatever percentage of that that they and Hyperion agree on. It has, or should have, nothing to do with Genesi (or any of the other would-be hardware producers). This is my view on the license fee, of course. AI might well insist on something completely unrealistic. After all, they have nothing to lose: they don't really seem to care if AOS4 produces any income for them or not, judging from their past behavior.

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There is only one way for AOS4.0(x) to survive, and that's with a one-to-one ratio of motherboard and AOS4.0(x). Anything else is suicide.

If there's one thing that everyone around here who has any knowledge of these markets has agreed on, it's that the AOS4 market is not big enough to sustain a motherboard project by itself. That means selling to users of other OSs. That means a one-to-one hw/AOS4 ratio is not possible.

You can dream about the Amiga user base zooming steadily upward until the hardware company is supported by those sales alone. But dreams don't pay the bills.

A long time ago I proposed an idea to take care of the "unique Amiga computer" desire and AOs piracy protection at the same time. There would be a USB dongle sold with the OS, but not just a simple stick; it'd be wired to a case-front bezel badge or something to mark the computer as an "authentic Amiga". The badge would only be available with the shrinkwrapped OS, and the OS would only run when the badge is plugged in. Is that cool or what?

-- gary_c

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@Atheist

Hey Atheist,

still vowing to defend the faith I see.

I am curious... What is it gonna do to you if BBRV gets his way? How is BBRV "bad"?

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Even a US$4.50 one-to-one ratio if it were coupled with EVERY Playstation III sold, you guys would be being RIPPED OFF ROYALLY!!!!!

If Sony would offer 45ct for every PS3 sold EVERY OS-developer (except maybe MS) would need to be very foolish to decline such an offer .....


If if it turns out a flop, "only" selling 10000000 units, that would still be 4.5 million $ probraly something like 500 times more what OS4 has earned sofar.

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How'd this get listed under "Amiga Development".

now moved to "General Computing and Technology"

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