Downix, CodeSmith,
Actually you are both wrong about "the Phoenix situation" (and really are generalizing about quite a timeline).
To truly understand the situation you would have to have been involved during the formation of Phoenix. Then you would have had a front row seat for what the pre-Amino Amiga Inc guys were saying (some of this slops over into fleecy interviews later, talking about QNX, who was indeed on the Amino dancecard for platform of choice), and what the QNX guys where saying.
There is no single attitude or viewpoint however, since many companies and developers were and are represented. Some were very inside, some saw only the more obvious and semi-public bits that spilled over into forums, newsgroups, etc. Some were involved in some relationships, some were not.
And if there is any "animosity" that goes back any length of time it has little to do with Eyetech and Hyperion - OR "The Name" of The Name. At least from my perspective, it has been based on several periods of Amino and Amiga Inc being in Phoenix but basically abusing any attempts to work together, and trying to take without giving in return. Not to mention the fiascos that led to the estrangement of QNX which made it tougher and tougher for QNX to get past the threshold for a user desktop.
As I've said here before, Genesi did more of positive impact for and with Phoenix in a month than Amiga Inc did in years (and now a relationship with QNX seems to be possible again as well, one based on products and development, and much less community politics)... The practices of Amiga Inc against those not considered total and unequivocal supporters with no outside interests, I've posited, have been driven by the very same attitudes that have clobbered them financially and community-wise to this very day. (I give Ray Akey some credit for actually trying to go against the grain and keeping a foot in with some QNX interests; unfortunately that was not enough by a long shot).
I wish it could have turned out differently. Not for my sake, not for Phoenix's (things are going pretty good these days). But it would have made a lot of crap that has happened over the past few years less likely. On the other hand, other crap could have happened. So it's a lot easier to live in the present and not worry about whether the past has been accurately represented.
As for Collas: seems like some people think Jesus still walks the earth. But Collas too was a bit of a pied piper telling people what they wanted to hear - or at least saying it in the tone they wanted to be tickled by. The parts that were not speeches written by Someone Else {;} I'm sure were very nice, but did they actually represent the realities of the situation(s) at Gateway and Gatemiga?
I think that if Collas has enough money a lot of people would like him to step in and spend it to make things right for The Name. But how would that fix the underlying problems? And why would it matter?
