The Downward Spiral of Amiga Incorporated

[Kronos]

a) bbrv wanted "the name": was more of a joke after a failed troll-attempt against Genesi.

It was AInc who let it slip, and it is just normal buisness for their competitor to make
use of such an utterly stupid failure.

Just imagine Coca-Cola having to recall a million cans due to a foul taste.
Do you think Pepsi would let PR-oppurtunity pass,just to be nice ?

This is buisness, no love-in  ;-)

@Argo

The courts might not allow for the continuation of the contract but would most likely allow Hyperion to release OS4 to recoup its loses in development. Not doing so, would have the courts put Hyperion in the same boat as Bolton, Fontenue, and other creditors

Not sure wether Hyperion wouldbecome a creditor,but if they do,they would
end uplast line, and if anybody "before" them wouldn't like OS4 relased under
that contract...

They can either hope that the contract-term is valid (something I find abit hard to
believe),or they go to GateWay for an direct licence.

Looking at some of the later OS4-screenshots, I get the feeling that this might
allready have happened.

[Kronos]

@Claucus

AInc-employees did leave, and some even sued.
Others stayed (unpaid) either just iddling or working in the hope of some miracle.

Being an unpaid AI-man doesn't cost and I'm sure most off them have a real
"2nd" job.

Creditors only act when there is something to win.

What could that be ?
The DE? Pretty much a stillborn.
The name ? Pretty dead (just look at the lastest slashdot-article).
AOS ? 4.0 still unfinished and in the hand of Hyperion.
3.5/9 in the hand of H&P,and 3.1 is so outdated it ain't funny (also quite
unclear who REALLY owns that. Gateway??).
Patents ? Still owned by GateWay (if not expired).

Fact is, AInc can't pay it's employees, they can't fullfill on lost court-cases,
they even can't (or refuse) to honour their costumers (yes those
bloody t-shirts  :-P ).

It is now more than a year that McBillis talking about a new investor/partner,
without anything real (and why should it looking at whyt "content" is available
for the DE/AA ?).

Will A1/OS4 save AInc ? Doubtfull.

Lets say they get 100$ per combo (*1):
That would mean 10000 units just to pay their debts (notcounting the mio McBill
owes to himself) ~3000 to hounor PPack and sCAM, and another ~1000(*2) per
month to keep the company going...

How realistic are these numbers ?

1: just guessing,but make it lessand the numbers get even more out of line.
Make it more, and the plattform willnever be available a competetiv prices.

2: 100000$ per month sound like a rather minimal number for a company that
wants to actually get something done.

[Kronos]

@otpost

Courts don't care about:
The work a task would need.
The sense that work makes.
3rd-party stuff needed for that work.

They do care about:
What is written in signed contracts (and offcourse the law) on the matter.