Just saw your post on AmigaWorld.net saying that Trevor told you that his priority was to finish the AmigaOS4.1FE port to the Tabor board, instead of releasing the X5000 for sale, is that correct?

I don't understand why the priorities of A-Eon would have switched from the X5000 to the Tabor, for getting AmigaOS4.1FE ported, as the X5000 hardware has been completed longer. Of course it makes perfect sense if it turns out to not be the real priorities of A-Eon, but instead the priorities of Hyperion, to complete the port of AmigaOS4.1FE to the Tabor, before completing the port to the X5000, as the MorphOS Dev. Team has no intention to support the Tabor board. I hope that Trevor is not prevented from selling any X5000 boards or systems, because of some "Ben Hermans" contract, stating that each board and/or system must include an AmigaOS4.x license, and that no X5000's can be sold until the port of AmigaOS4.x for the X5000 is completed.

Seems that could be more nasty bullshit from Hyperion to thwart the further success of MorphOS, just like the timing of their announcement of the AmigaOS4.x laptop/netbook based on the Limebook, that was never released, but was conveniently announced immediately after the first version of MorphOS which supported the G4 PowerBook had been announced, when it was no where near being ready for release, and probably hadn't even gotten to the point of a final configuration of how much RAM and how much those rebranded Limebooks would cost Hyperion to purchase.

What incentive does Hyperion have for finishing the port of AmigaOS4.1FE to the X5000, when they know it is not going to compare favorably in head-to-head benchmark tests with MorphOS3.10? They also benefit by limiting the availability of MorphOS users to buy new hardware, instead of used Mac G4 & G5 hardware, to only the poorly performing (when compared to any G4 & G5 systems) SAM460. I hate turning into a conspiracy theorist, but it seems like a perfectly feasible course of action by Ben Hermans to delay the work to port AmigaOS4.1FE to the X5000, if in his eyes he thinks that such action can in any way harm, or disappoint MorphOS users who are waiting to purchase an X5000 to run MorphOS3.10.

Time to go do something productive, thinking about Hyperion gives me a headache.

[ Edited by amigadave 11.07.2016 - 13:05 ]