> you'll get a dualcore system for the same price as the sam.

Have prices been revealed yet?

> we can talk about things to improve.

Improving the board by using a more compatible CPU would mean designing a new board from scratch.

> the people from the outside are annoyed by the attitude and arrogance of our community.

You mean people from certain other communities, not from the real outside, right? :-)

> Maybe we should [...] be more tolerant towards developers and hardware engineers.

Calling a bad decision a bad decision has nothing to do with intolerance.

> If there are cheaper alternatives [...]

It's not just about "cheaper", but also about "fully compatible" at the same or slightly higher price (APM PacketPro Mamba), or about "fully compatible" at an even lower price but about a year later (Freescale QorIQ T1).

> Or are you indicating that those people developing the boards are idiots?

The people developing the boards are electrical engineers (from the outside, as you would call it). They have no idea of the specialities of the Amiga software situation, especially not of the constraints regarding legacy code reuse and backwards compatibility in a mostly closed-source market. Even board developers from the "inside" (UltimatePPC) made the same mistake before. It's more about not repeating the much-discussed errors others did before than about idiocy. A-Eon should have known better, or at least the OS4 people advising them.

> OS4 users have a large amount of new hardware configurations to choose from.
> We do not have that possibility.

MorphOS users have the Sam460cr now and the CyrusPlus/X5000 in future. OS4 users have the same plus the hampered Tabor in future. I really do not see any large amount of configurations on the OS4 side, and a loss of Tabor for the MorphOS side should be nothing to shed a tear over.