Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30/03)

[Herewegoagain]

If RJ Mical, Dave Haynie and Carl Sassenrath all worked on the next version of MorphOS and the Pegasos boards. What would be more "Amiga"? The AmigaOne+OS4 or the Pegasos+MorphOS?

OS4... Just because they worked on the original doesn't make everything they touch an Amiga, no more than having Nolan Bushnel there would make it an Atari.

[Herewegoagain]

Of course not. Everybody knows that they have all moved on to their own respective projects. But they are great minds and their new projcets is probably great too, and it seems like they are interested in the Pegasos platform for their projects. Thats cool!

I wish them all the luck... But to be honest, those who worked on the original Amiga have been involved in several failures since...."The Atari Lynx", "3DO game console", "Rebol" (although that one is not really a failure, I don't see it burning up the industry like at first it was thought would).... I'm sure there are others.  Of course, they may have had some sucesses too, you just never hear about it when things go right.

[Herewegoagain]

Yes, but so has many others too (like Fleecy and McEwan). There is nothing bad or shameful in trying and failing, and there can be thousands of reasons to failures other than personal qualities (like you insinuate).

Let's get this one straight... I've not insinuated anything.  Just replying to the comment where someone else is making insinuations about a product being "more Amiga" because these people are interested in it... that is all.

I would NOT call Nolan Bushnell, RJ Mical, Dave Haynie, Carl Sassenrath loosers if I were you

Get it right, those are YOUR words.  I never once said any of them are loosers.  Don't try to bait with your trolling comments.  That's not what I said and you know it.

Fleecy is still trying to answer questions about OS4 week after week which never was their product and was not part of their plan).

Care to elaborate on how you know what Amiga Incs. plans for the future are??   Do you have inside info?  If not, don't speculate.

[Herewegoagain]

Product failure != Bad product.

Well, I don't agree with that.  Beta was superior to VHS, Amiga was superior to PC and Mac.... there are surely others.  That doesn't make Amiga a bad product, but it did fail as a major solution in the computing industry.

Which, of course, you just stated (in a round about way) in the last sentence.
 :-)

[Herewegoagain]

Then in 2001 there was a U turn and OS4 suddenly became central to the plans as they couldn't turn DE into a desktop OS as they had planned. OS 4 has never been a in-house project at Amiga Inc. and was never planned as a future path.

I know that...but it is now (part of thier future plans at least as far as we know).  But why beat a dead horse even more?  

People need to get out of the past and look at the present and future.  Quit trying to stir things from years ago... People, and companies, make mistakes...get over it and move on.  (Not talking about you, Uncharted, but those who continue to try and stir these same old tired topics over and over)