Moobunny is fun, reminds me of the old ann.lu, the same flamers/trolls/amiga inc fans arguing every day
This is a good resume of what happend the last 10years;
"Amino (the Washington company) is dead (just look up the secretary of state records in Washington state). It was renamed "Amiga, Inc.", but later it sold all assets to ITEC, who then sold to KMOS, which then was renamed to "Amiga, Inc." again, but this is a Delaware company that is not the same as the Amino company in Washington state. I understand from others who have asked that the Delaware company does not have a license for Tao.
> Is there a summary somewhere of why Amiga was interested in working with
> them?
You mean with Tao? That was in... 1999? Back then, AmigaOS was 10+ years old, and it was clear that it could not compete with Linux and other operating systems. So something new had to come in. Amiga tried with Be (but failed before the agreement was signed), with QNX (but failed after agreement was signed) and others, so at the end they entered into an agreement with Tao. Maybe they were Fleecy's friends? (Just guessing, as they were both in the UK.) I also believe Tao became an investor in Amino itself as part of the deal?
The goal probably was to have an alternative to the aging AmigaOS foundation that could be branded "Amiga" and hopefully work in some way. But it didn't work out. Tao was selling in the same markets as Amiga, and nobody wanted the Amiga branded product.
Furthermore this created a lot of confusion: "AmigaDE" has nothing to do with Amiga or AmigaOS. It is Tao's product, just rebranded, and with some minor extras which may have been of interest 10 years ago, but not now, where they just constitute unnecessary and obsolete legacy code that is not supported by Tao itself.
At the core, I think Amiga was run by technically incompetent (reading computer magazines and trying to glue together AmigaOS+Tao+Java is not the same as being a software architect :-) people who tried to exploit investors for their own personal profits (ranch, Maserati, etc.) and fiefdoms (Bill, Vince, the Ruksun gang and their other friends from the previous company they all worked at, ConnectSoft), and AmigaDE was something that could be used for this purpose. Sorry if I seem harsh, but I have no respect for people who give interviews listing all the nice toys they bought with the millions paid by investors, yet who don't pay their employees and contract workers. These employees and external programmers who worked full time for Amiga and to support Amiga's failed scheme to sell vapor, are still waiting for moneys due, and probably gave up hope, while the same employers/partners (Bill, Vince, Fleecy, etc.) conveniently jumped ship to the Delaware company and received more millions by Tapul (one million in relation to AmigaOS 4, not owned by Amiga but by Hyperion!), Prokom (two millions in relation to AmigaDE, not owned by Amiga but by Tao!), Pentti Kouri, etc.
So maybe the ultimate answer is... they were interested in the money? Facts would not seem to speak otherwise.
If you work for Espial as your IP seems to suggest, I would avoid them at all costs. IMHO there is nothing of any value for you left in Amiga, just problems."
And that someone still defends these scumbags, I dont understand.
