Is Amiga (the company) dead?

[Fransexy_]

krize wrote:
"Amiga Inc are still much very alive but just not very active."

Not very active, hehe, using several years to send out some t-shirts surely is not being much alive or active IMHO...

Why bother ? Because they own the Amiga (

Not completly true.Amiga inc only has the right to use (and sublicense) the amiga logo and technologies but gateway still own it.Note that in this context  Ainc only has a license to the PPC processor because if AOS is ported to x86 the the contract that gateway have with Microsoft will be violated because gateway would have another OS running in X86 (is their os even it is licensed to others)

[Fransexy_]

krize wrote:
What a bad deal IMHO ...

But it seems to me that they refuse to make any money! They could have sold alot more now if they just started getting acts together! Actually sell something...(if its not too late...)

What about the 68k series? gateway still owns it ?

Gateway owns it and Ainc has a license but there is no sense in develop for 68k

[Fransexy_]

I think we are there in the Amiga Platform as well. Aside from obvious copyright issues, there is no reason development on a modern Amiga OS could not begin exactly the same way. Build your functionality on top of a known solid system. IMO, that would not be Linux. BSD is an excellent choice because it is "rock solid".

That was exactly one of the ideas of the gateway era, get a kernel of other OS an put on top of it the Amiga APIs and ideas.First they thinked in QNX and was abandoned then they thinked in linux that also was abandoned.It´s sarcastic that was Amiga (well gateway) the fist who think on it, before even apple, and Apple later would follow this way with his OSX. this was back in the days  the response of the community about the use of a linux kernel for AmigaOS

Later gateway think in Amiga as only  a sort of a web based applets, also abandoned finally gateway decided do nothing with Amiga then appeared Amino that bought the rights to use the Amiga name and technologies (only has a lisence not are the owners) and born Amiga inc.