I usually stay far away from the subjects at hand, but I believe that people give too much sentiment (in a loss for a better and no insulting term) to CUSA bussiness.
And that's what we are talking about - Business!...
On a recent
Amiga.ORG thread someone gathered a bunch of questions for the CEO of CUSA, and here are the
answers.
So here's my (and maybe a whole lot of people) perception of the ongoing projects and companies involved or indirectly contributing to the Amiga... hmmm... thing?!...
Well that might sound biased, but the truth is that people are making assumptions on what is right, or moral or convenient... That's a perception regarding what seems the goals and envolvement of diferent parties (which might be wrong on all accounts). There's no judgement passed here.
Not long ago (maybe 5/6 years ago) AROS was widely recalled as a EVIL or PROFANE piece of software that was hurting the Amiga community and legacy (and all other related terms)... Then it passed as gimmick, a toy and nothing would ever come of it.
Guess what - in 2012, people are starting to say "Well it may just be the future of AmigaOS"...
Some people which would claim a sanity/reality check on people advocating for AROS...
What has changed? Certainly not in financial terms... Things still being done at the expense of the developers good will and some bounties...
So I guess you should look at these image for what it is, and not what is meant to represent. There are some good intentions, but in (again that word) a reality check the words from CEO from CUSA (Barry whatever) sound reasonable to most of us, if we detach ourselves from the Amiga sentiment present in all of us. Liking it is quite a different thing, but does it really needs to be fighted?
I don't see me buying any hardware from CUSA, but hell - if they have the means to do what they want with Amiga name, am I going on terrorist rampage? Hell, no!
People will recognize good value for their money, and that's not Amiga brand that will change that aspect - CUSA will have to prove they have a better product. And for all accounts it might not do Amiga Community after all.
Although I really hoped the Amiga name had something to do with AROS/MorphOS/OS4 (that's just my humble opinion and you know what they say about opinions)....
Loved this passage:
Do you plan to begin some sort of a cooperation with the Amiga
community that has nurtured the legend for so many years?
What I mean is to convince (in a financial way) three Amiga
teams (AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) to work on one operational
system dedicated to one machine created by CUSA.
Unfortunately, there appears to be much animosity between the next
gen Amiga OS teams. We’ve made it quite clear that we would like
AmigaOS running on our x86 machines, so in terms of usefulness to
the collaboration, Hyperion could potentially do that with the
assistance of AROS. While it would be wonderful if MorphOS Team
could get involved, I don’t see how it could be directly useful.
Lovely, but truthful or even realistic? More like the intelegent answer!
P.S.: I still vouch for the Volunteers and everyone else helping those guys!...
