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Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« on: February 28, 2004, 11:10:24 PM »
27 February 2004: San Francisco, California. KMOS, Incorporated announced today that it has acquired the Operating System known as Amiga OS 4.0 from Amiga, Incorporated. Garry Hare, Chief Executive Officer of KMOS, said, the acquisition of this innovative operating system was completed in April of 2003. We have continued to cooperate, and will continue to cooperate, with the existing development, technical and distribution partners toward the AmigaOne market.

saw this on an news site today (which i dont go to much) , anyone know something more or?

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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2004, 11:22:53 PM »
Well, at least now we know what happened to Garry Hare :-)

I wonder if he was a Genesi employee at the time he was passing out those business cards...
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2004, 11:24:33 PM »
According others (= I didn't check) it was also a short-time news on Amigaworld.net.

I don't expect it to be real... Sounds too strange.. even considering everythign else happening.   :-o  :-?  :-o
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2004, 11:26:02 PM »
I don't know about the situation, but I know this story was taken both off AmigaWorld and ANN.
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2004, 11:28:27 PM »
I'm 99.9% sure it's a hoax.

Christian Kemp considers it a bad hoax and has deleted the thread 5 times from ANN.lu's unmoderated section.  (Going by his post on Moobunny.)

Personally, it's not very convincing.  Why wasn't an announcement made back in April 2003?  Why didn't Hyperion say anything?  Why didn't Eyetech say anything (as AmigaOne is mentionned)? Who is KMOS (why don't they have a website)?

Also missing from this "announcement" is the typical: small descriptive paragraphs that detail the product(s) and companies involved in this deal.

Actually, come to think about it... I'm 100% sure it's a hoax. :P
 
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2004, 11:29:09 PM »
kennyR: and who would that be?

is this yet another one of thoose conspiracy teories ?

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I don't know about the situation, but I know this story was taken both off AmigaWorld and ANN. And I know who asked to have it taken down.  


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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2004, 11:33:23 PM »
@lempkee

I'm not certain (which is why I removed that part of the comment, too late it seems), but it was most probably Hyperion. And let me add that that is hearsay, so don't accuse me of spreading FUD if its not true. Because it might not be.
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2004, 11:34:47 PM »
sdesros:maybe they removed the items because they wanted an OFFICIAL statement covering all of it and just not the bits which was quoted on daveyd's comment on aw ?


going to bed now....YAAAAAAAAAWN
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2004, 11:36:35 PM »
DaveyD said he was asked to remove it from amigaworld.net
Ben Hermans said that it got removed because it was not
official. He won't comment on it (yet).

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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2004, 11:38:18 PM »
Uhhh... weird.

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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2004, 11:44:09 PM »
This is Christian Kemp's view on the announcement (taken from MooBunny):

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I'm considering it as a hoax, too. And not a good one at that, which is why I deleted it maybe five times in ANN's unmoderated queue today (probably submitted by the same person each time - I could look up IP addresses, but I don't think it's worth the trouble).


Given the amount of disinformation that's been going around lately, unless I see an actual press release I'm not believing anything.
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #11 on: February 29, 2004, 01:40:44 AM »
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Who is KMOS (why don't they have a website)?


Maybe they're related to KMART?  After all, KMART has a _BLUE_ light special.    

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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #12 on: February 29, 2004, 01:41:52 AM »
DaveyD said he was asked to remove it from amigaworld.net
Ben Hermans said that it got removed because it was not
official. He won't comment on it (yet).

Awesome!

It would explain why Amiga Inc were happy to roll over in the thendic vs amiga case.

This would leave bbrv chasing shadows....
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #13 on: February 29, 2004, 02:33:37 AM »
If AmigaOS and trademark was adquired by Hyperion, then it would be great news, they are fans of the OS and Amiga for a long time and produced titles even when it was not economically viable... but this? Yes, probably a hoax and even if not, it would be probably just another company commmercially interested in the OS.
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Re: Gary Hare , KMOS and OS4 ????
« Reply #14 on: February 29, 2004, 03:37:23 AM »
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Well, at least now we know what happened to Garry Hare :-)

I wonder if he was a Genesi employee at the time he was passing out those business cards...


You think he was working for genesi and Amiga at the same time?  :-o
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