I really have to wonder if people are reading the same interview I was reading.
Commodore USA is currently a small company, with limited resources, and with limits to Amiga IP usage. We are doing the best, with the IP we have available to us, as we possibly can.
It's all fine to sit there and say, oh, I woulda done this I woulda done that.
We have to be rational about our business right now so as to avoid potential money pits. We're in it for the long haul.
We would love to do all the various things the community want, but we quite simply can't at the moment for various reasons both legal and financial.
But be assured that it isn't because we have no interest in doing so.
If we had the kind of money that would allow us to take such risks, and tackle such projects, then of course we would.
Evidently we
aren't reading the same interview you are - we're reading the interview linked at the top of the thread, wherein Barry states multiple times over that CUSA won't be supporting NG Amiga-like OSes, won't be supporting further development of Amiga emulation for Linux or any kind of integration into the OS, won't be supporting projects like NatAmi or PPC boards, and says, and I quote:
AMIGA can mean many things to many people, and not many can agree on what it is, but as long as you are convinced that AMIGA is a certain narrow set of hardware and software rather than a concept as we do, there can be no convincing you of the merits of our activities. You have to let go to take off.
He isn't interested in doing anything we're interested in (even where he isn't legally barred from doing so,) and he thinks of the Amiga as some nebulous "concept" that means basically whatever he wants it to mean, and tells anybody who disagrees to shove off. This isn't a case of "just hang with us and it'll get better," as you've kept saying. Even if CUSA had money and connections, which it doesn't, Barry would have absolutely nothing to offer us. This is what I suspected for a long time; now he's confirmed it. What is there left to say?
We had the good fortune to be able to acquire usage of the trademarks, and there's no point sitting on them and doing nothing with them just because it isn't 100% what we wanted from day one. That gets you nowhere and Rome was not built in a day.
No, and Rome wasn't built with a sign saying "Carthage" out front and charging twice as much in tax as its priciest neighbors, either.
We actually WANT to do all the cool things the community want us to do because we also believe it to be quite interesting, and in many ways align with our ultimate strategy.
As others have said, do you even talk to Barry? Because he's said quite explicitly that, as a company, you
don't want that.
I quite honestly believe you should pray for our success, not our failure, because we want to be the catalyst that re-unites all facets of the Amiga IP, and ultimately create the kind of high tech computer and environment all Amiga fans would like to use and see further developed.
Pray for your success? Why? Any success in "[reuniting] all facets of the Amiga IP" you'd have, under the restrictions Barry's statements place on such a thing, would boil down to essentially what you're doing now: redefining "Amiga" to mean absolutely nothing, so that it can be applied willy-nilly to whatever overpriced, mediocre PC clones you feel like shipping out. I don't
want that to succeed. I want it to
fail, hard, because (and here's what Barry doesn't get, no matter how many times we explain it)
"Amiga" is an actual thing, with actual properties that endear it to actual people, not just a nebulous "concept" of "so-and-so horsepower and oh, it makes nice pictures and sounds too, and probably does the Internet." I want to see new Amiga projects that embody some of the aspects that made the Amiga great. Yours do nothing of the sort. Therefore, your success in this venture is the
last thing I want.
You feel a sting right now, I know, but I believe it will all work out for the best in the end.
"Just keep quiet and don't struggle, and we'll be done with you soon."
