Whats really sad is when you think about how amiga was once in head to head competition with microsoft and apple, go look at what those dot coms are worth now. There are free font sites of all things worth more than amiga.com now.
Only Amiga makes this possible?
BTW, everyone will be happy to see that www.amiga.org is worth almost twice what www.amiga.com is worth - Lots more page views
per day too! = http://thenetinfo.com/stats/www.amiga.org
Steven
Hate to break this to you, but Amiga was NEVER head-to-head in competition with Microsoft or Apple. (at least in sales, promotion and users) They wanted to be, and should have been, as the Amiga hardware and software were SOOOOOO far ahead of Microsoft and Apple at one time, they should have been able to wipe the floor with them, but the incompetence of Commodore and their lack of action and vision about what they had and what the Amiga was, killed any chances the Amiga ever had. The window of opportunity closed rather quickly and I would say that it roughly was over by the time the A2000 was released, as Commodore had made virtually no progress on the Amiga's original brilliance and Microsoft/Intel and Apple were catching up FAST.
This was more true in the USA than in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and other EU countries where the Amiga probably did compete on an almost equal footing for a couple of early years, but the Amiga never made any serious inroads into the corporate world of business computing where all the money was being made and which eventually doomed the Amiga to "that weird game computer that was not good for anything serious". The NewTek Video Toaster almost turned things around and made the Amiga respectable in a commercial setting, but even that could not last when Commodore failed to keep pace with the rest of the computing world and the release of AmigaOS3.0 and AGA Amigas was too little too late.
As for Bill McEwen and his merry band of followers, I actually believe his intentions were honest and that he tried very hard to make something happen and work out in "HIS" vision of where the Amiga trademark should go, but a series of bad choices and failed deals quickly put him back on his heels and struggling. Unfortunately he abandoned the core value of the Amiga, which was it's users and developers when he screwed up the deals to get AmigaOS4.x written in a timely manner, but the blame is not all his, as I think we all have seen the sordid history of what happened and can see the fault on both sides and the greed that has done so much damage to what the Amiga was and is. That greed is still with us and I assert that it has kept the Amiga back, crippling it on old outdated and grossly expensive hardware for years.
I am glad the lawsuits are over and I am actually glad that Hyperion has won the right to continue developing AmigaOS. Now they only have to earn my respect and money by producing an even better OS than they already have and allow it to run on reasonably priced hardware that is easily available and has enough power to do all the computing things we all enjoy doing with other OSes. It does not have to need quad core technology and 3.0+GHz speed CPU's to impress me, but it does need to respond like my old A1000 did in 1987 running AmigaOS1.3 on a 4 color Workbench screen, and it needs to do it at a 1920x1080, 24bit resolution.
