Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5

Amiga Gamer writes "Amiga Inc. Acting President Bill McEwen has given an update to Amiga OS5 of sorts. In a previous interview Bill had said of OS5: "The product that we are going to ship is going to be much better than OSX from Apple". "OS 5 is ahead of schedule, and we will be making public announcements concerning the product in the 4th quarter of this year.""

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The Berlin Amgia Users Group has 130 members.

[Anonymous Coward]

I was at the August meeting of the Berlin Amiga Users Group. There were 130 people there. We had to move to from the pub we started at because there were too many of us! I talked to one guy there who was in the Rotterdam Amiga Users Group, and they routinely had 90 to 100 people show up to their meetings. Those are significantly larger crowds that I've ever seen at Linux user group meetings. Amiga was always big in Europe, and still is, even many years after the demise of their mainstream products.

Once every blue moon an "Amiga is comming back"..

[3seas]

...article is posted to slashdot. And that began many blue moons ago.

Is it a slow news day? Did murphy firehose it up?
Is it intended to be humor or is it to expose the remaining gullible?

Seriously, the company now known as Amiga has worked very diligently
and persistently at securing its reputation as a company intent on
keeping the Amiga off the market and deceiving what ever followers it
may still have with what amount to as soap opera antics.

Now about Amiga being better than OSX.... Think about it!

You can have the best OS in the world but if there is no software
being written for it.... who is going to use it for what?

Don'tcha think someone would have heard about software developemnt
for the Amiga if it were going to be better than _____________
(fill in the blank with any reasonably used OS)

Bill McE. is financed to be a nut... How better to keep amiga off
the market and the open source clone dev (AROS) less supported and
concerned enough about Amigas legal antics to remove "Amiga" from
all mention?

There is nothing in the last 7 + years, of which the current
"ownership of Amiga IP" has done anything beneficial for classic
Amiga users, the consumers, or for the Amiga software development
market. If fact they have done just the opposite.

And as other Blue moons have passed with little to no fan fare,
so will this one.

Only the gullible would mod this down or as flamebait.

Its honesty based on the history since before gateway sold all but the patent IP.

Re:All 5 amiga users jumped for joy until

[baryon351]

"OS 5 is ahead of schedule, and we will be making public announcements concerning the product in the 4th quarter of this year."

This is the man who claimed OS4 was on schedule to be released in 1999.

The release date was eventually December 2006, just days after the last licensee allowed to produce Amiga hardware lost their license.

Anyone else up for another 7 years of "It's nearly ready, really! No, we're serious this time..."

Makes Vista seem positively normal, and makes Leopard's delays look like an overnight shipping glitch.

Re:What -is- the situation with Hyperion?

[Samurai Crow]

There is an ongoing lawsuit between Amiga, Inc. and Hyperion-Entertainment, VOF. The Amiga, Inc. that was chartered in Washington went belly up but never signed the insolvency papers. Hyperion has, as part of their contract, a transfer agreement similar to the one between Novell and SCO. Hyperion claims AmigaOS 4 is theirs because of the former insolvency of Amiga, Inc. Washington. On the other side of the coin, Amiga, Inc.'s name and IP rights have been bought out by another company called KMOS that changed their name to Amiga, Inc. and is chartered in Delaware. Amiga, Inc. Delaware is claiming to own the rights to the name AmigaOS 4 as a result of that situation. As soon as Amiga, Inc. Washington went belly-up Hyperion started letting their third-party contractors get by with binary-only licenses of their contributions to the AmigaOS 4 code-base and so, even if Amiga, Inc. Delaware buys Hyperion they won't have the source code rights to AmigaOS 4.

Re:Linux more prevailant than OSX

[the_womble]

Ubuntu passed the 8m mark abouut 9 months ago, based on the number of people updating from Ubuntu servers.

Note that updates can be cached, there are probably people sho do not update (for example because they have slow internet connection), and there are people who update from mirrors, so it is probably an undercount.

Ubutntu and Linux are growing, so the numbers are higher now

If Ubuntu alone has that many users it seems probable that desktop Linux is ahead of Mac OS's 20m+.

Re:Once every blue moon an "Amiga is comming back"

[christurkel]

I agree. This guy has made repeated promises and broken them. Most recent? ACK controls is making our new PPC hardware for 9/07 (and this was in 5/07). 9/07 has come and gone and guess what? nothing.

This guy is a sneak oil salesman.

Sounds like somebody's jealous...

[SanityInAnarchy]

It's not tagged "colddayinhell" because nothing could be better than OS X.

It's tagged "colddayinhell" because Amiga is vaporware. Since Vista has actually been released, consider the new joke to be, "Amiga 5 WILL be released... and it will be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever."

Has to be better than it's clone

[dltaylor]

The GUI of OSX is a clone of the Amiga as possible, including the "replicative fading". Sure it has a few more colors, and much newer hardware to drive it, but functionally, it's the same, but weaker.

Same:

Menus at the top of the GUI, rather than the application window.
Brain-damaged limitation on the location of the window resize controls.
Task bar/dock.
Drive icons.
Really usable command line interface.
Drag'n'drop, ...

Missing:

Public/shared/private screen feature.

Better:

???

BTW, anyone got a "stickies" (on-screen Post-It (tm)) equivalent for the Mac or Gnome?