Bill McEwen

[Tension]

Am i wrong, or was Bill McEwen not once on our side?

{edited for spelling}

[Flashlab]

Don't know about McEwan but McEwen has screwed us from the beginning.

[Tension]

Ok, I must have got my wires crossed er sen.

[Krusher]

Flashlab wrote:
Don't know about McEwan but McEwen has screwed us from the beginning.

Irvin Gould did that with bringing in the person who shall not be named  :madashell:

[smerf]

Hi,

@Tension

Mr. McEwan is struggling to keep Amiga Inc. afloat, so do you
really think he is worried about what a few hundred people
say about him. He is formally engaged now with trying to
sell Amiga Anywhere, wish him the best of luck.

What I am really trying to say is that Bill is a business
man trying to keep his company going, yes he is on our side
but he has bigger fish to fry than trying to bring a new
Amiga Computer into the world trying to compete with
PC computers, think about it, it just not going to happen.
He is currently engaged in writing software programs and
hoping that other people will buy them. Yes Bill screwed up
he tried to get started what other Amiga users wanted, a
new PPC Amiga (me included at the time) but if you look at
it, the PPC is dead, just like the 68000 series chip, the
Amiga users have either moved to Macs or PC's currently
there probably is no market for a new Amiga, and even if he
did come up with a new Amiga computer, he would have
trouble getting software companies to write software for it.
Most software companies today are PC based with Microsoft.
In other words sad to say Bill Gates owns and says what will
work on your computer, he owns the industry and can shut
your computer down at any time unless you pay him dearly.
Case in point, I bought VISTA, my computer has been shut
down several times for reactivation because I added new
things to it (last one being a HP printer driver for my
printer) now I will have to call (8th time in less than a
year) some turkey in India, to have my VISTA reactivated
for the 8th time. How much longer that will last I don't
know because being a computer hardware hacker, I buy new
uptodate hardware every couple of months. So MicroSoft has
total control of my computer, and dictates what I can or
can't do with it. Ubuntu is now my main operating system.
So if Bill was smart, he would currently take the old Amiga
OS and port it over to PC computers to boot up from the
start and get software people to ride his train on the
Amiga OS.

Good Luck Bill McEwan, hope you read this and hopefully
you are still on Amigians side.

smerf

[Krusher]

smerf wrote:
Hi,

...
In other words sad to say Bill Gates owns and says what will
work on your computer, he owns the industry and can shut
your computer down at any time unless you pay him dearly.
Case in point, I bought VISTA, my computer has been shut
down several times for reactivation because I added new
things to it ...

smerf

See that's your mistake, buying Vista when Windows 7 is in the works which is a far better thing. Until that gets out I'm using XP. Vista is a piece of crap.

BTW XP can be hacked so no reactivation is needed. Microsoft does not own my laptop and I will not let them.

[Tension]

smerf wrote:
Hi,

@Tension

Mr. McEwan is struggling to keep Amiga Inc. afloat, so do you
really think he is worried about what a few hundred people
say about him. He is formally engaged now with trying to
sell Amiga Anywhere, wish him the best of luck.

What I am really trying to say is that Bill is a business
man trying to keep his company going, yes he is on our side
but he has bigger fish to fry than trying to bring a new
Amiga Computer into the world trying to compete with
PC computers, think about it, it just not going to happen.
He is currently engaged in writing software programs and
hoping that other people will buy them. Yes Bill screwed up
he tried to get started what other Amiga users wanted, a
new PPC Amiga (me included at the time) but if you look at
it, the PPC is dead, just like the 68000 series chip, the
Amiga users have either moved to Macs or PC's currently
there probably is no market for a new Amiga, and even if he
did come up with a new Amiga computer, he would have
trouble getting software companies to write software for it.
Most software companies today are PC based with Microsoft.
In other words sad to say Bill Gates owns and says what will
work on your computer, he owns the industry and can shut
your computer down at any time unless you pay him dearly.
Case in point, I bought VISTA, my computer has been shut
down several times for reactivation because I added new
things to it (last one being a HP printer driver for my
printer) now I will have to call (8th time in less than a
year) some turkey in India, to have my VISTA reactivated
for the 8th time. How much longer that will last I don't
know because being a computer hardware hacker, I buy new
uptodate hardware every couple of months. So MicroSoft has
total control of my computer, and dictates what I can or
can't do with it. Ubuntu is now my main operating system.
So if Bill was smart, he would currently take the old Amiga
OS and port it over to PC computers to boot up from the
start and get software people to ride his train on the
Amiga OS.

Good Luck Bill McEwan, hope you read this and hopefully
you are still on Amigians side.

smerf

I think you`ll find it`s Bill McEwen lol. :-D

[alexh]

smerf wrote:
the PPC is dead

The second best selling microprocessor in the world today and he says it's dead!

The truth is that Amiga Inc. are and always were SMALL TIME and creating computers and entertaining devices takes big bucks.

[SamOS39]

Bill McEwan? is he that sweaty looking guy in my OS3.5 booklet?

[weirdami]

@alexh

The second best selling microprocessor in the world today and he says it's dead!

I think as far as the Amiga is concerned, it is. Isn't it? I see lots of posts about how PPC solutions for Amiga are scarce, and that's why they are going for so much money now that AOS4 finally is released.

I think McEwen tried his best to be on "our" side. But, given how much "we" complain, I think he's been trying to focus on things that keep AI's bottom line in the black instead of making sure that every little concern of a few militant enthusiasts is addressed.

[rkauer]

 From my point of view, Bill 1 and Bill 2 (aka B1 & B2), can plook each other!

[persia]

To be fair Amiga Inc is Garry Hare not Bill.  Amiga Inc is just KMOS rebranded, it has little or nothing to do with the original CBM or it's successors.  KMOS bought the Amiga name and Bill came along with it.

Amiga Inc (KMOS) has *never* produced anything that was "Amiga Compatible."  Amiga Anywhere is from a different deal TAO Group and has nothing to do with the original CBM and Amiga Inc.

Bill is the spokesman but all discussions are made by Garry.  Garry has made it clear through his actions that it was the TAO Group software he was interested in and the Amiga name.  That's it.  Bill, on the other hand has some feelings for the original Amiga, though what those feelings are isn't clear.

Amiga Inc does not own the Amiga IP or name, it has an "exclusive license" to them.  Mind you, most of the Amiga IP is slipping dangerously close to the 17 year mark. so it's value is limited.

Amiga Inc is a privately held company, so details of what it does are not public record.  It's largest branch is a Microsoft certified development office in India.  Beyond that it produces versions of old Amiga games for PCs.  It's other known "product' is Tao based AmigaAnywhere, though you can't actually buy it.

In a wink and a nod to the old Amiga it did pay Hyperion US$25K to develop OS4, a tiny sum of money for an OS upgrade.  And this is tied up in litigation.  They've already made it clear that this is the end of the Amiga line and that the future is Tao rebranded to Amiga Dos 5.

Amiga Inc is just a name, it has nothing to do with the Amiga of old.  Accept that and move on.  Now you can choose to embrace Tao and follow Amiga Inc or you can do what we do, ignore Amiga inc.

For my point of view, from what I can see of Amiga Inc, it's main product appears to be press releases.

[persia]

The main problem with PPC is that it's sole users are Game Consoles, which means it's development is in that line.  Which means no G5s for laptops.  It's why apple left.  There's nothing inferior (or superior) about PPC, it's just that as a computer manufacturer you are never going to get first pick at the chips.

Intel hardware is cheap and readily available, if there is a future Amiga it would almost have to go the intel route.

alexh wrote:

smerf wrote:
the PPC is dead

The second best selling microprocessor in the world today and he says it's dead!

The truth is that Amiga Inc. are and always were SMALL TIME and creating computers and entertaining devices takes big bucks.

[JuvUK]

Sorry but i have to add my 2 pennies to this, Vista can be "hacked" not to need reactivation but that is mostly done by pirates, i'm not saying you're a pirate just that its usually done by pirates, i have been using Vista for about a year now and have added and removed loads of different hardware, no problem, i haven't had compatability issues or activation problems in fact fingers crossed, my pc has actually been more stable under vista than it was under the "blue screen of death" xp pro i was running before, so in short maybe just maybe vista isn't as bad as people make out, sp1 for vista is out (sort of) and it seems to have made vista quicker, lets give it a chance hey?
all the best Juv.U.K

[Phantom]

Amiga Inc is just a name, it has nothing to do with the Amiga of old. Accept that and move on. Now you can choose to embrace Tao and follow Amiga Inc or you can do what we do, ignore Amiga inc.

Exactly.

My opinion is that AmigaOS must across the other side. This side is x86, if you want to survive. Look AROS for instance. In a couple of years it will be powerful!