Amiga.org has for a long time been the main port of entry to the Amiga community, and most new and returning users come through here. It has become clear to me that Matthew Leeman of AmigaKit dislikes competition, and I think he would prefer to have a monopoly on Amiga products and services, and not see prospecting developers and new vendors entering the market. I think acquiring amiga.org is partly a business initiative to herd all these new and returning users into the AmigaKit web shop, and not let them slip away to other vendors and competing products.
You know some of us have stuck around long enough to remember just how bleak things had become in the Amiga marketplace around 2003 before Amigakit landed onto the scene, hardware development was drying up fast as vendors like Eyetec, Analogic lost interest in classic platform and begun to leave in droves.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that 10 years on companies like Elbox would still be doing production runs of some of their product line, or we would ever see new hardware like accelerators or sound cards being produced again. I think the success of Amigakit has only helped spur development of these products and been instrumental in making our hobby the small niche market it is today.
