Bill McEwen

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To be fair Amiga Inc is Garry Hare not Bill.  Amiga Inc is just KMOS rebranded, it has little or nothing to do with the original CBM or it's successors.  KMOS bought the Amiga name and Bill came along with it.

Amiga Inc (KMOS) has *never* produced anything that was "Amiga Compatible."  Amiga Anywhere is from a different deal TAO Group and has nothing to do with the original CBM and Amiga Inc.

Bill is the spokesman but all discussions are made by Garry.  Garry has made it clear through his actions that it was the TAO Group software he was interested in and the Amiga name.  That's it.  Bill, on the other hand has some feelings for the original Amiga, though what those feelings are isn't clear.

Amiga Inc does not own the Amiga IP or name, it has an "exclusive license" to them.  Mind you, most of the Amiga IP is slipping dangerously close to the 17 year mark. so it's value is limited.

Amiga Inc is a privately held company, so details of what it does are not public record.  It's largest branch is a Microsoft certified development office in India.  Beyond that it produces versions of old Amiga games for PCs.  It's other known "product' is Tao based AmigaAnywhere, though you can't actually buy it.

In a wink and a nod to the old Amiga it did pay Hyperion US$25K to develop OS4, a tiny sum of money for an OS upgrade.  And this is tied up in litigation.  They've already made it clear that this is the end of the Amiga line and that the future is Tao rebranded to Amiga Dos 5.

Amiga Inc is just a name, it has nothing to do with the Amiga of old.  Accept that and move on.  Now you can choose to embrace Tao and follow Amiga Inc or you can do what we do, ignore Amiga inc.

For my point of view, from what I can see of Amiga Inc, it's main product appears to be press releases.

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The main problem with PPC is that it's sole users are Game Consoles, which means it's development is in that line.  Which means no G5s for laptops.  It's why apple left.  There's nothing inferior (or superior) about PPC, it's just that as a computer manufacturer you are never going to get first pick at the chips.

Intel hardware is cheap and readily available, if there is a future Amiga it would almost have to go the intel route.

alexh wrote:

smerf wrote:
the PPC is dead

The second best selling microprocessor in the world today and he says it's dead!

The truth is that Amiga Inc. are and always were SMALL TIME and creating computers and entertaining devices takes big bucks.

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Good stuff here:

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/kent-wa/T6TE3BB2QIOPAK8OT

The reference the following sites:

http://www.merlancia.us/amigabk/replyresponsemotion.pdf

And more at:

http://www.merlancia.us/amigaauction/
http://www.merlancia.us/amiga-hare/
http://www.merlancia.us/amigabk/

BTW, nice car:

http://www.merlancia.us/amigaauction/billsnewcar.jpg

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Never the less you are far more limited in dealing with IBM rather than Intel or AMD.  IBM's chips are designed for things other than computers, so you'll never have a G5 laptop for example.

It just makes sense to go with industry standard parts and make your difference in the OS.  Linux, OS X and MS Windows all run on the same equipment but there's a ton of difference between them.

It's all really hypothetical though since the company that is leasing the Amiga name has no real interest in Amiga computers...

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So let's get the story.  Garry Hare created  a company called KMOS, Bill transfered Amiga bit by bit to KMOS, when the transfer was complete Bill let that Amiga Inc go bankrupt and KMOS was renamed Amiga Inc.  Bill moved to the new Amiga Inc, pushed Garry aside and sued him?

How did Garry get pushed aside if he owned the company?

Why did Bill sue him?

Did Bill ever get his Matserati back after bankruptcy?

Why actually runs the company that today is called Amiga Inc?

Why are they so interested in the Amiga name but show little or no interest in the Amiga computer?