OK folks, just to update you on the progress....
Transition has sent Barry the list of final questions, and I've been authorised to post them. These are the first round of questions that Barry will be answering soon, the majority of which should hopefully be completed by next week. So here goes....
How much has CUSA contributed to any AmigaOS, AROS or MOS bounties ?
Do you intend to contribute to any Amiga related bounties such as the Magellan one?
What does a CommodoreUSA Amiga offer that a PC made from the exact same parts doesn't, apart from the name, and a doubled price-tag?
Given the on-going development of OS4 as well as AROS, etc. What plans does C-USA have to incorporate support of any of these Amiga-ish operating systems in to their Amiga branded machines?
Does Dammy's misrepresentations and incorrect expectations about company policy and expectations represent corporate policy?
Do you feel you made any errors in talking with the Amiga community ? Will there be changes in the future ?
Given the expressed desire to progress from being a licensee to an owner of both Commodore and Amiga IP, is there any progress on either of those fronts?
More specifically, do your plans change depending on the outcome of the C=Holdings B.V. v. Asiarim Corporation et al lawsuit? If so, in what way?
Why do you feel it appropriate to use the Amiga (or Vic) name on these machines?
Is your Amiga Mini product UL and CSA certified? Likewise, were you issued an FCC ID for your product?
Is there *anything* interesting/unique in regads C-USA products, or will they always just be using other peoples work? (ie. any plans for custom apis, drivers, technologies,etc.)
Could you please explain your thought processes when you decided to fund what you wanted to be seen as a legitimate successor to Commodore Business Machines?
I realise that you fell for Hyperion's legal bluff regarding Amiga-Alike OS's hook, line, and sinker, but why didn't you research other approaches to enter the computer market with a product that, if it didn't have anything directly to do with existing Amiga intellectual property (Motorola/Freescale 680X0 or PowerPC), at least fit in with the original Amiga philosophy of Hardware and Operating System tightly coupled together?
Could you please explain why your retail model places all the supply, financial, and legal risk on your retailers to the point of having them assemble your Amiga models for end users for you? This seems to be unprecedented in the computer world. Even small Gaming PC operations like Alienware, Cyber Power, IBuyPower, Falcon Northwest, Digital Storm, and AVA Direct do not opperate in anything like this fashion.
What is the unique value proposition and/or intended market niche for an Amiga Mini with parts that have been priced (Minus the Amiga Logo) at a total of ca. $550 when you have set the prices set starting at $1,700, and one can get something with slightly higher specification from Alienware for $850?
What do you (or any of your employees with computer hardware/systems backgrounds) think of this computer/OS architecture?
What happened during the discussions I would assume you had with Ben Hermans and maybe Trevor about the attempt to license the AmigaOS for your Licensed Amiga hardware that you could build based on perhaps a Sam or X1000 motherboard in an official Amiga case.
How are the discussions going with the Natami team to support them and if you can resolve a licensing issue with Ben Hermans then build into an official Amiga system.
Do you or any of your team still use or own classic Amiga systems? if not why not? and, if so what do you enjoy about them?
In your first year of operation there was I feel a few mistakes, promoting Aros, promising support for aros, promptly dropping support and attacking aros, using copyrighted images on the web site, threaten legal action towards members of the community and respected web sites, using the workbench trademark before legally having right to it, calling your Amiga range 1000x, very similar to another product if you asked me, photo of your operations not being quite right, and announcing products and systems before you seem ready to announcing them, so basically how would you personally rate your performance? And would you care to comment on any of the above.
What relationship (if any) do you have with Amiga Inc?
Again same question but with regards to Hyperion, A-eon or any other amiga company?
How did you feel about iContain and what sets your Amiga apart from their computers?
Do you have any plans to attend any Amiga shows to demo your products?
Do you have any plans to support any area of the current Amiga scene? Viva Amiga film? Advertising on amiga web site?
The Amiga Fantasy case or similar all in one keyboard computer will it happen?
Do you plan to support Linux mint developers and Linux community?
Why should an Amiga user get one of your Amiga's?
The philosophy around the Amiga was "a computer for the masses".
Will we ever see that philosophy in practice again? And, will a "new" computer carrying a heavy name like that be as revolutionary as its ancestors were?
What is your opinion of the Natami project?Would you be interested in making Classic a500/a1200 style cases(similar to the amiga fantasy case) for natami and for sale to users that want to build their own systems.
Have you any plans to create a more classic amiga or such or peripherals etc.
What's your opinion of Aros?
Is there any chance for any kind of cooperation between CUSA and Team AROS?
Is it planned to have AROS supported by your system? Is it going to support all the build-in hardware?
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.
Do you plan to use the potential of Natami to create chip or card that could work with your motherboard under a new, common operational system?
Do you plan to create something like AppleStore and after coming to agreement with the publishers and owners of old classic Amiga games make them available to buy as ADF images or to create remakes of the most popular titles?
When you acquired the Commodore "thing" did you get any papers containing "secrets", items like unknown future designs? Stuff like that we would all appreciate to hear about, if such exists.
What is your opinion about the FPGA projects that are recreating the old 8-bit and 16-bit machines on hardware FPGA emulation?
Why is it taking you so long to bring to market range of computers made from pre-existing cases with a pre-existing motherboards running a pre-existing OS?
Having acquired a license to use the Commodore name to sell common x86 hardware what made you decide to buy a license for the Amiga name to do exactly the same thing?
Do you think the Amiga license represents value for money in terms of additional media coverage and custom over the attention that the Commodore name has brought to your business.
For those people who are not excited by a linux pc, will you genuinely have something of interest for them?
Would you consider some non-x86 HW, like the upcoming Efika i.MX6 from Genesi?
Do you feel at liberty to sell products with AROS bundled, in products branded Amiga? 2b) Or sell products to re-distributors who bundles the HW with AROS?
If I understood things right, You have put up an idea of third party system builders can buy a branded case (of your selection) from you and build whatever custom combination of HW inside it, for their local marke? Is that correct? 3b) Can this be "turned around", i.e. say that I already have a product using a cool custom case I have had designed, can you allow branding on those for a fee?
Could you describe exactly how the legal situation stands regarding the brand names (Commodore, Amiga, with associated marks like "Boing Ball" etc), and licenses and ownership's thereof?
The rainbow coloured ticker has huge appeal in the gay communities, I know this first... hand... after visiting bars and nightclubs in Amsterdam and San Francisco, wearing nothing but a... wearing a dark purple T-shirt with huge Amiga ticker on the chest. Are you considering the market appeal for "Amiga" and rainbow ticker in the LGBT communities?
How much did you pay Amiga Inc. for the rights to use the Amiga name on your computers?
Do you pay Amiga Inc. a licensing fee for each machine sold, or was it a single lump sum payment, or a combination of both?
Do you think the fee (whatever that may have been) you paid Amiga Inc. for the name was worth it financially?
Why do you think there is so much animosity towards CUSA from people in the Amiga community, and does it bother you?
What is your company doing to support the Commodore and Amiga scene?
Is there a line of Commodore / Amiga mice and keyboards being designed/produced which will complement the current range of Mini computers?
Have you considered adopting the Amiga styled Window Manager amiWM which although is quite limited in its current form, would at least give users a traditional look and feel of Workbench?
Are there plans to bring out a customized (Workbench style) GUI like what Apple have done with BSD and custom GUI?
What happened to the hundreds or thousands of c64x's you claimed you were shipping to big box retails stores that never happened. Why?
Why did you illegally steal footage from a disney movie (TRON) to make ads for your company?
