AFAIR it was the police who advised him not to attend in the first damn place
I wonder why he didn't participate via telephone, as Alan Redhouse did, then. As I recall, the announcement that he would attend was made seemingly rather hastily as a response to the uproar about Garry Hare possibly being AI CEO instead of Bill McEwen. It seemed Bill was going to AmiWest at least in part to show that there was no management crisis at Amiga, Inc. The cancellation, under admittedly curious circumstances, has now only compounded that impression. A telephone interview could have been made safely enough, I would think. Why couldn't he just relay over the phone whatever it was he was going to say in person in Sacramento? I do hope his health isn't so poor that he can't even manage that. Surely, if it were, some arrangements could be made for an interim CEO.
I was on #morphos yesterday and Bill Buck was relaying something about Bill McE's state of health being quite poor now. Not bloody surprising all the stress he is under.
That's for sure; hopefully a path can be found out from under all the burdens and he can regain his health and start getting his life back in order.
Sure its good to be a cynic, but sometimes you have to consider all the alternatives - not just the negative ones.
One problem is that it's difficult to fathom what could be a positive alternative, as we think about what's going on with Amiga, Inc. these days. Maybe there is a positive story there somewhere, but if so, it's pretty well hidden. What I've always thought is that Amiga management should level with us. Their PR has always been handled badly; one way to try to get past this stage is, I think, to stop attempting to keep erect the facade of everything still on track when obviously they are in rather desperate straits. As your comment about Bill Buck suggests, even adversaries seem to be more compassionate when they know the truth. I was hoping AmiWest might give Bill McEwen a chance to set the record straight, to say things have been done badly but here's a course for the future. Unfortunately, instead we have more rumors and no doubt will continue to get skeptical comments from one side and over-the-top denials and defensiveness from the other.
-- gary_c