@pavlor

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pavlor wrote: Porting from OS3 to OS4Final costed Hyperion 1.5 milions EUR - according to revealed court documents.

I know that statement already and you are correct in quoting it. I do remember it my self as well. However, if it is true then it means that they have spent resources either to inadequate people or into wrong directions within the project of OS4.x porting and further development. I mean.. whoever has used an OS4.x system will surely not think that this tremendous amount has been spent on it! Furthermore, from a financial pov, It's impossible/irrational to invest 1.5 m. USD in a market of 1.000 users. In ten years lifetime, I doubt that Hyperion is profiting more more than 25.000 profit/annually from the amiga market (and I must be really-really generous with my estimation). That would mean that Hyperion is working with unbelievable losses or as a charity. Dave told previously in this thread that he had to hire around 30 dedicated software engineers/programmers for almost 2 years in order to create an Amiga-like OS (if I have understood correctly). If today you had to hire the same amount of people, I am fairly sure that these money (almost 2 Millions) would be adequate to patch any OS4.x lack of feature, port it to all available platforms, expand its software list with all the mainstream open-source programs and you would still be within budget and time limit.

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