Looking back

[SysAdmin]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/circuits/articles/22amig.html?oref=login

Reflecting back after 12 years what was his goal? Was he just an agent of Microsoft, something more or just foolish?

[kolla]

His goal was to make money, and for most part, he failed.

[B00tDisk]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/circuits/articles/22amig.html?oref=login

Reflecting back after 12 years what was his goal? Was he just an agent of Microsoft, something more or just foolish?

"an agent of Microsoft"?  For reals, dude?

[commodorejohn]

Another vulture in a line of vultures, if a longer-lived vulture than most.

[ChaosLord]

What makes you think he is not an agent of Mehdi Ali?

[mousehouse]

I really have no clue whatsoever who this guy is. And I'm always an optimistic & positive guy but how are you going to support a company with 20 employees by only selling an OS that is not available (if I understand correctly)? Would make more sense to me to port AmigaOS4 to x86 (debated extensively, not realistically doable) or rewrite it (AROS, already being done, free). Also, the Amiga was killed by vaporware and unrealistic announcements that never made it (underwhelming people with what actually did make it to the market) and it doesn't seem like they have something I can buy now...

I'm having a very hard time convincing myself that this will fly...

[TheDaddy]

Nice shoes...

[Krischan76]

A former truck driver who, to that point, has never owned an Amiga before. Well, well, well. (Nothing bad about truck drivers, though.)

[haywirepc]

Bill is the worst or all the amiga grave robbers.

At that point, there was still some hope. He squandered every opportunity to find success in favor of greed. Pure greed, period.

1) Screwing morphos - Morphos was poised to become the new amiga os, instead this dumbass decided to code an os from scratch.

2) Screwing amithlon - Here was another great option for amiga to continue.
Silly Billy Killed that.

3) Hyperion... Nice way to treat your partners you dumbass.

At these points in time, amiga still could have re-emerged as a small nich but still been somewhat relevant or competitive in the pc world. Instead, silly billy ruined every chance amiga had at succeeding.

Nice job.


Whats the latest on all the tablets people paid for that they never got?
The store at amiga inc is still closed, typical. He can't even put amiga stickers on cheap asian imported tablets and ship them right

[Jope]

2) Screwing amithlon - Here was another great option for amiga to continue.
Silly Billy Killed that.

Even without Amiga Inc and the AmigaOS licensing mess, there was still Harald Frank throwing sticks through the spokes. ;-)

[hishamk]

You know, I'd really like to hear Bill's take on this. Maybe the writer of that original article can interview him again? Or maybe we could?

Oh well. It's all in the past. Or the present. Who cares now.

[danwood]

You know, I'd really like to hear Bill's take on this. Maybe the writer of that original article can interview him again? Or maybe we could?

Oh well. It's all in the past. Or the present. Who cares now.

Bill's been in hiding for many years now, I believe his last public appearance/communication with the community was around 2007, he's blanked all correspondence since, emails to amiga.com are unanswered, phone lines disconnected.

Good luck contacting or finding him, from anyone who wanted to develop, licence or sell Amiga products, emails have gone unanswered for years, except (oddly) CUSA...

[giZmo350]

So that's Uncle Bill 'eh?
Always wondered what he looked like....

[jorkany]

Bill's been in hiding for many years now, I believe his last public appearance/communication with the community was around 2007, he's blanked all correspondence since, emails to amiga.com are unanswered, phone lines disconnected.

I've heard his mansion located in the backwoods of WA state doesn't have a phone. Here's a picture of it:

[persia]

well in Hyperions's case he met his match, they screwed him before he could screw them...