Do we have AMIGA OS anymore?

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IonDeluxe wrote:


I think what is freaking SHADES out is that KMOS did not buy the entire company and is worries that it will just use what it bought as "spare parts" for something else.

That seems illogical to me as Linux and other OS's are more advanced and a different design so there is little value in doing so IMO.Forcing everyone to change all thier system software for a free os would likely be financial foolishness.

KMOS, it seems, has given assureances it will continue development of the Amiga platform, so there is no need to worry about it.

Settop boxes, embedded systems, kiosks etc.  The OS has a small footprint, (even the PPC version) they would own it and they can enhance it to fit their needs.  Given Garry's background thats much more likely use for an OS then an OS for an expensive (ie A1) computer.   However I still stand by my thought that this chapter in amiga history will be known in the future as Operation: Shell Game.
    -Tig

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IonDeluxe wrote:

That is already the plan, by selling the hardware to customers who want these systems then the cost of production f boards goes down...DUH. Its all tied in.

WHat has changed from the past to now ? nothing, absolutely nothing in regards to what any owner of the OS could have done at ANY time.

First of all you are completely wrong.  Price of the boards sold by Eyetch is so little effected by units sold at this point that selling a bunch more to KMOS's customers isnt going to help.  The board is costing $800 to the customer, thats alot of people in the chain getting fat, thats not a quantity waiting to made so the boards get cheaper.  What has changed from the past?  The OS has been moved in a shell game from a bunch of incompetant posers (ie Bill & Fleecy) to a person who wants to build set top boxes or hide it from the creditors.   You think the OS will continue to grow if its used in set top boxes, thats true in some ways, but whats good for a settop box really isnt whats needed for a new OS.  If a new feature isnt useful in a settop box configuration, no need to add it, because thats where they will have the most/all of their customers.
   -Tig

         

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DaveP wrote:
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Follow the financial transfers, and even the attempted transfer of rights of the Amiga/Thendic contract.

Operation Shell Game indeed.

I have seen no documentation that everything was not done within the law (thus not a shell game).  And everyone knew about it.  I dont see people lying in depositions,

Or maybe, what you term a "game" is a normal part of running a business.

No DaveP as you well know.  

The timetable as we now see it:

April 23 - Itek secretly acquires Amiga OS

April 30 - Bill McEwen says that Amiga OS is their most valuable asset in a sworn deposition in search of Amiga Incs money to pay Bolten Peck.  Garry Hare also is featured in this deposition, and also Bill McEwen first admits that Amiga Inc is broke.    

August 7 - Bill McEwen says the Amiga OS IP is an asset of great value in a deposition for the Thendic/Amiga lawsuit and that Amiga Inc has only $100 in their sole bankaccount.

Oct 7 - KMOS is formed

Oct 10 - KMOS secretly acquires Amiga OS from Itek

Feb 2003 - Amiga loses the lawsuit with Thendic

Feb 2003 - News of Garry Hare returns to the amiga community when posts that his company KMOS now owns Amiga OS begin to appear and are branded FUD.

Mar 2003 - KMOS and Amiga explain to the judge that KMOS owns Amiga OS and that Amiga has not owned it since April and they also release that as part of a press release.
     
See we have the secret sale of the most valuable asset of a company while they have financial judgements against them, all while the CEO lies about still possessing that assets, to both the washington state and the federal court system.    See how thats different then business as usual.
     -Tig