Atheist:
Exactly what features does AmigaOS 4.0 have that OS X doesn't?

Oh, wait, I know.. OMG OMG!!111 LOL LOL!!!1 draggable screens!

@Atheist

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Atheist wrote: No matter how you look at it, bb's trying to get AOS4.0 to sell his product (a motherboard) with no obligations whatsoever on his part TO AOS4.0. Whether it lives or dies, he couldn't give a rats ass.

Hardware does not need AOS4 to sell. Hardware vendors do not give a rat's ass about AOS4. Hardware vendors have no obligations to AOS4, and have no rational business reason to take any such obligations upon them.

AOS4 is dependent on hardware and hardware vendors.
Hardware and hardware vendors are not dependent on AOS4.

The compulsory hardware licensing scheme is constructed from a weird alternate view on reality, where things are the opposite of what I just described. That is why AOS4 is dead, dead, dead, unless the scheme is canned.

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If AOS4.0 is not coupled with his MB, if sales of AOS are 10% of his MB output, he don't care.

Of course not. He's a hardware vendor. Let's use your numbers: He has no reason to go after 10% when he can go after the other 90% (or 100%, if the licensing scheme was canned).
No vendor that matters wants to pay money and take on extra obligations for "10%" AmigaOS customers. If PPC weren't already dead on the desktop and Apple still developed new PPC Macs (the frigging obvious option for any PPC desktop OS), those "10%" would be closer to 0.01% for them.

AmigaOS is the loser today, not hardware vendors. And that's not the fault of independent hardware vendors who obviously act in their own interests, and will always do so. They're businesses (hopefully), not charities for a vanishing number of people who hold delusions about "new Amigas".

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That is a joke, and Amiga cannot survive.

Amiga probably need a revenue stream to survive. AmigaOS sales could generate a revenue stream, for both AInc and Hyperion. Now they've made it nearly impossible to sell AmigaOS at all.

If you're talking about Amiga-the-computer, that died in 1994. That's why we're (supposed to be) getting AmigaOS4, which is meant to run on 3rd party hardware since there are no more Amigas.

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