Bill McEwen

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Hi,

@Tension

Mr. McEwan is struggling to keep Amiga Inc. afloat, so do you
really think he is worried about what a few hundred people
say about him. He is formally engaged now with trying to
sell Amiga Anywhere, wish him the best of luck.

What I am really trying to say is that Bill is a business
man trying to keep his company going, yes he is on our side
but he has bigger fish to fry than trying to bring a new
Amiga Computer into the world trying to compete with
PC computers, think about it, it just not going to happen.
He is currently engaged in writing software programs and
hoping that other people will buy them. Yes Bill screwed up
he tried to get started what other Amiga users wanted, a
new PPC Amiga (me included at the time) but if you look at
it, the PPC is dead, just like the 68000 series chip, the
Amiga users have either moved to Macs or PC's currently
there probably is no market for a new Amiga, and even if he
did come up with a new Amiga computer, he would have
trouble getting software companies to write software for it.
Most software companies today are PC based with Microsoft.
In other words sad to say Bill Gates owns and says what will
work on your computer, he owns the industry and can shut
your computer down at any time unless you pay him dearly.
Case in point, I bought VISTA, my computer has been shut
down several times for reactivation because I added new
things to it (last one being a HP printer driver for my
printer) now I will have to call (8th time in less than a
year) some turkey in India, to have my VISTA reactivated
for the 8th time. How much longer that will last I don't
know because being a computer hardware hacker, I buy new
uptodate hardware every couple of months. So MicroSoft has
total control of my computer, and dictates what I can or
can't do with it. Ubuntu is now my main operating system.
So if Bill was smart, he would currently take the old Amiga
OS and port it over to PC computers to boot up from the
start and get software people to ride his train on the
Amiga OS.

Good Luck Bill McEwan, hope you read this and hopefully
you are still on Amigians side.

smerf

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Hi,

@Krusher,

Go ahead, rub salt in the wounds, I deserve it, the only
reason I bought VISTA was because for once I wanted to be
the first on the block to own a new operating system by
microsoft, I waited 4 years before buying XP, probably will
use XP now until Windows 7 comes out, and then wait another
4 to 5 years to see how it acts before buying it. From now
on MicroSoft will have to prove to me that it is the OS
that I will be looking for before I give up my hard earned
money.

Anyway AmiKit on XP works well, and Ubuntu has now become
my main OS, wouldn't trust anything of importance on any
microsoft product. I just use windows xp for games, every
time I trust it to hold my pictures or music, windows xp
crashes and I lose it all. So now I use Ubuntu or my old
favorite Amiga 4000 which takes a lickin but keeps on tickin.
Anyhow my Amiga 4000, hasn't had a real crash since 1992, the
only time it crashes is when the operator breaks it, but the
Amiga is also very easy to back up with LHA and DiskMaster.

smerf

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Hi,

@Tension

You are rite sir!

I spelled his mane wrong.

Sorry Bill

smerf

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Hi,

@alexh

Don't see how it could be the second best selling processor
in the world, when even Apple dropped it and upgraded to the
intel chip.

Have you looked at their new Leopard today?

This machine looks good, except for the price.

(yea, I know keeping up an old Amiga 4000 is just as
costly).

If the Amiga could have gone to the PPC about 10 years ago,
maybe it would have spearheaded more dev. by motorola, but
at this point motorolla has dropped all processor dev. and
has moved over to cell phones.

smerf