@Greenboy
I've been on Phoenix since it started to come together long before amino bought Amiga from Gateway. I've been lurking ever since, since my expertise wasn't in OS design, or hardware design, which was the primary topics in the beginning. (I'm sure I'm not the only lurker).
To update your stated history, if I remember correctly, Animo got VC capitol from their associations with Tao. Meaning, from what I understand, that is where they got the money to buy Amiga from Gateway in the first place. Not from Tao itself, but VC partners that Tao was associated with or did introductions to or something of that effect. Tao was probably interested in the idea of "Amiga" developers, and decided to help out. So of course Amino/Amiga Inc. was going to go with Tao. It had nothing to do with "picking" it, it had everything to do with how they got their initial money in the first place. I think they even stated all this publicly online and at shows they visited years back(Amino/Amiga Inc).
And I have a question for you...What happened to phoenix? I know I'm not privey to all the details that went on behind the scenes, which is why I'm asking. Phoenix was all about making a new Amiga-like platform because at the time of formation, Amiga was dead because Gateway was sitting on it doing nothing. Hence the name Phoenix. Most people in Phoenix, including myself, ever wanted was the current OS(3.1-3.9) to be extended to a PPC native OS on a machine that was faster than the 604s(The holy grail of AmigaOS 4.0, wherever that was going to come from. That being QNX as core, Linux as Core, even Tao as core, but what was prefered was the current core of AMIGAOS to be core, but it was said that wasn't possible in the time frame). Phoenix internally choose QNX as that way, partially because of Collas starting the ball rolling that way, and because QNX was interested in helping out (because they wanted to and to expand thier business). When Amino bought the rights to Amiga from Gateway, they had their presence on Phoenix too, and said, hey, how about checking out Tao. Since the group had already been making inroads using QNX (even if only ideas), it wasn't interesting to the members of Phoenix. I can completely understand that, Tao/Intent is no more AmigaOS than QNX was, and people were already playing with QNX, why expend resources in two directions? Unfortunately, during this time, I can only figuire is when all the bad blood happened behind the scenes between certain founders of Phoenix and Amiga, Inc. I can only come to that conclusion, because Phoenix didn't jump on the OS4 bandwagon when it was announced that finally, the old Amiga OS was being extended to PPC officially. That's all most of the developers at Phoenix ever wanted, and it was happening, and instead of embracing it, someone in phoenix decided that there was too much bad blood for them, so they made deals with the opposing side. To hell with what the original purpose of the organization was.
For business reasons, considering the bad blood that happened because Amiga didn't want to go with QNX, I can understand that road may have been closed so the only other way to go was the opposing side. Is that what happened? That is my question.
