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If you had been straight and clear right from the start, there would not have been any need of illumination from other willingly people.

Yes, but that reduces the fun.

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- do you want AOS4?

I'm not bbrv of course, but this is my opinion (and I hope the bbrv reply is in those questions we submitted a while ago). My impression is that any OS/user base still active with PPC is an asset for the architecture overall. Genesi is, after all, a PowerPC hardware/firmware provider and, let's face it, the platform has seen brighter days. In this context, it makes sense to get even rather small subsets like PPC Amiga on board for possible collective benefit.

Part of the benefit would be more enthusiasm and perception of activity for the Power/PowerPC platform. Part might be actual increased sales for Genesi from this market, but I think that's secondary.

I suspect there is also something personal about bbrv's quest related to AmigaOS. Personally, I can't see how it would be worth the effort. Like Seehund said, I really hope this is something bbrv are doing in their spare time after the real business has been done.

When I see the reactions to bbrv's posts here, though, I have to wonder what the net gain would be for power.org anyway.

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- have you ever tried / are you trying to get the license (in a fully professional and legal way, I mean)?

IIRC, there was negotiating way back in the early days, but didn't Amiga, Inc. impose a condition that the machine could not be sold with OSs other than AmigaOS installed? Please correct me if I'm wrong about that, anyone.

Anyway, in 2006, the concept of a hardware maker paying the OS provider for the right to provide essential hardware so that the OS can be sold and used seems totally wrong to me. Of course the value of anything depends on the context, so if AmigaOS would drive Genesi ODW sales in a great way, it might be worth it to Genesi to pay a premium for this, knowing they would quickly recover that cost. But realistically, this is not the situation for AOS4.

Personally, I think it makes sense for the OS vendor to get income from the unit sales, but nothing additional. So the license would just be a kind of cooperation agreement, with no money changing hands.

-- gary_c

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