Poster: Matt_H Posted: 2007/8/29 16:37:34
Hopefully his first role as advisor will be to advise them to settle the damn lawsuit.
If he does the job properly he first analyzes the situation, then do the advising part of the job. Although advises are useless if nothing is done with them...
So, to make the job easier, I've done some thinking and came with the following (please, don't take this all too serious, for I'm enjoying a beer or two in the mean-time):
Situation:
1) There is an Amiga OS but no hardware.
2) Amiga Inc. is suspected to have not a huge amount of money to spent on research and development.
3) The Amiga OS needs add-ons to make it a complete product, compared to Linux, Windows and OS X.
4) A stupid cat-fight is going on between A Inc. and Hyperion.
Advises to change the situation:
1) Short term solution: License OS 4 to be released for anything using a PPC G3 or newer processor (ie any Apple iMac, Macmini, Sam440). Long term solution: Get OS 4 ported to more commonly available hardware. Short term solution shouldn't cost a dime as it has been reported that OS4 runs on the mentioned PPC hardware).
2) Be more flexible in giving licenses on hardware and software. Ask a fair price and start making money. After a while, research and development should become a possibility again.
3) Use the funds from point 2 to create the missing links (up to date Browser [FF-port], Office Suit [Open office], support for modern hardware).
4) Call it a day with sueing and work out some plan where Amiga Inc. gets a few dollars per sold OS copy and where Hyperion gets more freedom to get the OS on more different hardware.
Ah well... this ain't gonna happen. Perhaps the best advise he can give is: 'Hey Bill, call it a day and let it die.'
