Everybody in this forum (I hope so) has a job, so Bill McEwen has one. And this is what he does. Lets talk about past, when Commodore made all the mistakes that led to todays situation.
Wasn't it Commodore who misunderstood the signs and lead us to the way to a "dead" Amiga? Amiga just lives in the heart of us - the real world ate it up! Tell me just some little advantages Amiga has related to a good PC using XP?
Look at Macintosh - they did it... They found a corner to live and they used it together with a self-created image. Amiga was known by millions and sold to millions... but Commodore has thrown it away.
Bill McEwen belongs just to a third or fourth owner of "Amiga" brandings and old code sources. And may be, if he was not in the place after those other companies went down, no AmigaOS 3.x or 4.x would ever have seen the light of our sun.
Not everyone is happy about "TAO" or a massive redesigned OS4 or 5... for this reason there are projects like AROS out there, and i guess it must be possible to port the famous "MONO" a dotNET clone to the AMIGA's AROS - world... I thought about it by myself... but I do not know if I have the time to do this...
Why are just all "crying" around about good old times. Take your keyboard and do something for it! Porting MONO and other famous applications to AROS would make it an "alternative" that no longer lives behind the moon.
I think about Amiga when thinking about Linux. I do not think that Amiga will be a real alternative to "commercial" systems like Windows, but as open source operating system like AROS Amiga has some potential. It is small, powerful and has some good concepts...
I hope you understand what Bill does for us.. he gives us hope! Without his work and a still existing "Amiga Inc.", noone would ever have thought about Amiga surviving the times... Amiga itself has died a decade before!
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