Did anyone read this open letter to us?

[Caius]

Andeda wrote:
This is a little offtopic but ill ask anyway, who was behind the release of amigaone was it Amiga inc? how many was manufactured, and why didnt they manufacture more of them?? So lets put it this way, what went wrong?

You'll find at least one of your questions answered on Wikipedia, under "Current Status".

I don't know how accurate the information is, but it's somewhere to start at least.

[Caius]

I think this has been discussed before, but...

For some reason I'd like Commodore International Corporation to take over the Amiga. That said, I know nothing of this new incarnation of the company, except their stated intention of reviving the Commodore name. I think I'll keep an eye on this company though. They certainly appear a lot more serious than Amiga,Inc. at the moment.

[Caius]

Frankly, I think the best thing that can happen to the Amiga OS right now is to make it Open Source. I can honestly say I can see it becoming more popular than the many variations of Linux, and stands a great chance of upsetting the Microsoft monopoly.

Possibly. On the other hand it may also lead to fragmentation if two or more AmigaOS spinoff projects starts heading in two different directions. On Linux this effect is halted by using a common kernel, and by a shared vision of Posix compliance. Although different Unix/Linux variants aren't always binary compatible, they essentially share the same operating system API, making it very simple to port software between them.