You know, it would be cool if Amiga used QNX as the base for OS 5. There were a lot of folks who looked at QNX back in the day and went 'why are we using this TAO crap?!' and the answer is in large part that QNX' CEO and Amiga's CEO didn't get along. Bill McEwen hated QNX, especially after Haage and Partner released their AmigaOS XL atop QNX-remember that? It was their answer to Amithlon, so to speak.
Amiga and Haage and Partner also, sadly, had their own great differences-and unfortunately the contract of McEwen's Amiga asset purchase from Gateway wasn't written in such a way as to guarantee H & P royalties be paid to Amiga, so H & P didn't pay them. They weren't technically supposed to release Amiga OS XL without Bill's permission because it used Amiga's IP, but they did it anyway. And never paid Amiga any royalties from its sales :-( Or, in fact, from OS 3.9 either.
It also wasn't written in such a way as to keep Petro from doing his own back door deals and in fact Amiga had to keep him on-with pay-even though he was pretty much ganking them the whole time!
It really wasn't Bill's fault entirely that things went as they did, I think he jumped in with both feet before realizing how far the drop off was.
Maybe though, in the end, we'll get an OS authored by DKB hardware's own Dean Brown-last I heard he still worked in some way with Amiga. That would just ROCK. If Dean makes it, it won't suck. That's my best case scenario prediction.
However there's a fair chance that Amiga might market it wrong ;-)
