make an offer to buy Amiga Inc.

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Amiga burst onto the seen with advanced technology and died an early death.  It's the Elvis of personal computers!  There never was a survival strategy, and even if there was it wouldn't have worked.  The only non-MS compatible computer company to survive that era is Apple, and they survived because of Steve Jobs and a small investment for MS.

I'll repeat that THERE WAS NO WINNING STRATEGY.  There is no winning strategy today to bring Amiga back.  There is no way Amiga could catch up with Apple or MS, and catching up isn't good enough to generate customer, you have to really excel.  Where is Amiga going to do that?  

It would take ten's of thousands of man-hours to modernise AmigaDos and then more to develop a killer App.  The hours aren't there, the skills aren't there.  Look at OS4, we've all got copies of it from various sources, not one of us can make it run on old Macs, or Pear PC.  This is child's play compared to updating the OS and developing a killer app.

And if you have the idea for a killer app why would you release or develop it only for Amiga when you could retire happy to a beach on a tropical island if you made it run on a PC?

The Amiga is retro, if you know Amatuer Radio, there is something called QRP, basically transmitted on low power.  Whilst the average person will Skype someone on the other side of the world, the QRPer will build a transmitter in a chewing tobacco can and communicate from the woods using a straight key and an antenna strung between two trees.  That's the Amiga enthusiast!  Yeah I can do that in 10 minutes an an 8 core Mac using Final Cut, but it's more fun  taking a few days to do a more crude looking version on video toaster.  Because you did it on a computer that makes a mobile phone look like a super computer.

Amiga Inc is irrelevant, they have produced nothing that is Amiga compatible, they produce 15 old Amiga games for the PC and do dotNet development in India.  They talk about a redone Tao Intent (Amiga Anywhere) They lease the name Amiga, but that's really it.

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None of which was a winning strategy when Escom folded, you would have had to use technology that simply didn't exist at the time.  There simply wasn't a winning strategy, Apple survived by the skin of it's teeth.  Had MS not made a strategic investment to save it's sole competitor there would be no Apple today.  All those wonderful toys that have made Apple and others lots of money came long after the remnants of CBN/Amiga Inc/Escom were gone.

I can't really figure out what Amino and KMS were/are about, they bought the Amiga name but seem to have little interest in developing products.

So here it is, more than a decade on, AmigaOS has no relevance to modern OSs, has no hardware to run on and no modern applications to run on it even if it did.

How much money, time and effort do you spend to make Amiga DOS modern and what equipment do you run it on?  You can't make a modern OS and still be compatible with 20 year old programs and you can't sell a machine that has no applications.  Best bet would be intel hardware with a custom designed video card from someone like Nvidia.  But once you've produced a custom os on a customised PC where are the Apps that people are going to run on it?  There is simply no winning formula today if you want to go that route.

This is KMOS/Amiga Inc's dilema.  It's neat to evoke the late 80's and early '90s but there's no money in it.  Basically you build a clone of 15 year old technology and you sell a hundred or two units or you invest millions developing a new software/hardware platform and sell them only if their cheap enough that people can load MS Windows on them.

It's too late, KMOS/Amiga Inc has done nothing but drive away more people than would have been lost by attrition.  The audience is no longer there, not in the numbers that are needed.