The questions and answers are interesting, but in the whole scheme of things are totally meaningless.
There needs to be a new OS out there, there needs to be a new source of hardware, etc. That's it.
Nothing that Bill has said defines anything concrete.
The whole $500,000 issue seems stupid to me. If you can licence the hardware and software out, I say go ahead and licence it to whoever wants it.
If the company only manages to produce 100 boards before busting, at least that's 100 more boards than we had before.
I would suggest they should be more interested in quality and ability to follow standards than bank balance. It's not like Amiga is Apple or Dell and can go around making demands of manufacturers.
Realistically the hardware is worthless now anyway. Classic stuff is too outdated to be useful. Even the PPC boards are old tech. The OS is the only thing that has any value, and there's no decent reason that can't run on any hardware, except for some reason Amiga Inc. insists it must run on their licenced platform.
If anything, all he's said basically confirms that Amiga right now only exists to make lawyers richer, and the only realistic option for anything new tangibly Amiga related is AROS.
