| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 22 Apr 2001 at 18:57:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
Hello Andy
On 22-Apr-01, you wrote:
> Hello Matt
>
>> Considering a lot of people expected AmigaOS 4.x to actually *be*
>> MorphOS..
>
> No-one knew about OS4 until recently so how could they know about the
> Amiga Inc/ MorphOS talks? As far as I'm aware the only people who
> thought that were the morphOS team. Unless of course they broke NDAs
Common sense brings expectations. When you already have a PPC native
AmigaOS with application support it requires and the development at a
steady pace nearing completion, which already runs on the boards you
expect to be selling to people (bPlan Pegasos) you expect Amiga to say
"hmm, yes, we'll just leverage MorphOS".
In fact, as far as we're all concerned that WAS the plan (why else did
Amiga say they wanted OS4.0? Think about it, the release of MorphOS
and Amiga's pledge are close..)
Why did they choose to get someone to write ANOTHER PPC native
solution? Because they're way too pally with H&P to give them up,
and H&P convinced them that MorphOS was more trouble politically
than it was worth.
Little does anyone realise that the political concern in both cases
is always Haage & Partner. We can blame Petro for this, especially
now he's gone.
Thanks
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