AFAIK some time ago, the project was quite mature and ready to go into production but they couldn't get past Amiga.Inc licensing.
I heard that Amiga.Inc wanted totally unreasonable terms. Most people just saw this as an excuse because (the general belief at the time) Amiga.Inc was a money laundering and tax evading operation and they didn't want ACTUAL business to disturb their cosy little scam.
