Anyone remember the interview these Q&A's came from? Just about every single answer by Bill was a complete and utter steaming pile of dung. And he had NO NEED to lie.
>AA: What is the current status of development for AmigaOS 4.0? Does Amiga play an active part on the development, meaning do permanent employees of AMIGA, Inc. write on AmigaOS 4.0)?
>BM: AmigaOS 4.0 is an effort between Amiga Inc. and selected partners. Yes, Amiga engineers do write code that is a part of OS 4.0.
Complete and utter lie. Not only was it a lie, NOBODY was working on AOS4 at ALL. Amiga engineers indeed
>AA: What is the future of the successors of AmigaOS 4.0? Will they be released, especially version 5.0 which is to be merged with AmigaDE?
>BM: Absolutely they will be released. We are moving forward with all possible speed for a new Desktop OS.
He left out "All Possible speed" = "Well, nobody is doing ANYTHING right now, H&P decided to not do it, and Eyetech will tell you all about it soon."
>AA: That means, that now there are also plans for an x86 version of AmigaOS? Could you imagine cooperating with other developers, i.e. with the AROS team?
>BM: Yes, there are plans for an X86 version and a PPC version. This has been stated for some time. I will not make a comment here on who we are working with to accomplish our goals.
Wrong. He "Will not make a comment" because there was absolutely NO work going on at all.
>AA: But don't you think that the Amiga emulators Amithlon and AmigaXL, which were recently announced by Haage & Partner, are competing with the new versions of AmigaOS? Or is your company even involved into the development of those emulators?
>BM: Emulators are emulators. I like the two products and yes Amiga is working with them in the development process.
AT NO TIME was Amiga *EVER* involved in the developement process for EITHER product.
>BM: There is always going to be criticism about what we do, and how we communicate. At the beginning we gave more information and people said we were telling too much, then we cut back and people said that we were not telling enough. So we ended up in the middle, and there is more concern. Before the end of October there will be some changes and a new attitude and some new products.
Make no mistake, with the new Amiga that is emerging you will either follow or get out of the way, now if the time for Amiga.
Get a Clue Bill Mcewen! It's not "too little info" OR "too much info" that pisses people off, it's the COMPLETE BS and LIES you tell for NO REASON.
When the scandal broke (Thanks to Eyetech telling us) and I read over this interview, it exposed that man for the Liar he is, you can't trust that man at all, I'd doublecheck my watch if he so much as gave me the time of day.
These wern't "changed plans" or "changed directions", he knew he was full of BS at the time he was spouting this utter crap. We all know this now.
Oh, and the recent "The TShirts have already been printed and are ready to be delivered" crap from 5 months ago, another Lie.
