| [News] Bill McEwen, CEO/President of Amiga, Inc. will attend AmiWest | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 29-Apr-2003 21:07 GMT by Peter Gordon | 167 comments
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Bill McEwen has posted a very short press release explaining that he'll attend the AmiWest show.
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| Bill McEwen, CEO/President of Amiga, Inc. will attend AmiWest : Comment 71 of 167 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Turrican on 30-Apr-2003 08:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 67 (tonya):
@tonya
"well think back some months, genesi said quite open that amiga and genesi aint competitors , genesi will work their own way, so what is all ths about? ..sounds like all my assumptions was cORRECT!!
genesi wants Amiga and the products, now thats atleast 100% for sure, billbuck you should answer to this post asap or else we all will know u are hiding something (or yourself :I)"
Well they still say this even today! Just see a few quotes from the "famous buisness card" thread between Bill Buck and SlimJim:
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[SlimJim] I have no problem per se with you (theorethically) taking control over AOS. I have no reason to dislike you or anything silly like that. But I would be
concerned about the future of AOS4. I simply cannot see how you could push more
than two OS:es at once, especially if you want to make use of the Amiga brand
recognintion (which I suppose is the main prize here). One of the "next-gen"
OS:es, or part of OS would have to go. It will be a mess and will tear the last
bits of this community to pieces, I fear.
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[Bill Buck] Hi SlimJim, there has been enough "tearing" already. We hope all the trolls will just stop now. It is time to build up this community again.
Just to make things clear: we have NEVER been against OS4, just like we are not against AROS, OpenBSD, DebianPPC, NewOS, Gentoo, SuSE, and now OpenBeOS (all these groups have at least one Pegasos!). We just have a hardware, operating system, application software package based on MorphOS and the Pegasos. That is our #1 Priority, but all the other operating systems are interesting for us too as they work with the Pegasos and whatever comes after -- the Pegasos II, the STB, the eclipsis, etc. That is the reason we have been so supportive of Phoenix, because we knew everyone would not want to be "Genesi."
There is plenty of room for everyone and every ambition!
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[SlimJim] "Merging the two OS:s" huh?
And you think that would be a clinical and painless process without influence from
personal preferences, politics and old grudges coming to the surface, do you? At
one point, they have to choose one thing before the other. Swords will become
unsheathed, mark my words.
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[Bill Buck] SlimJim...MorphOS is MorphOS and WILL NOT be AmigaOS anything! We do not want that. It can and will run old Amiga applications, but it is and will be MorphOS. Please do not read too much into the above discussion. Your fears are NOT well founded.
When we have fancy boxes for the Pegasos II someday we might have all the operating systems logos that can run on the platform printed on the box and one of them might be OS4. That is all.
Our MAIN strength is the hardware, operating system and applications in ONE intellectual property package. The Pegasos becomes a development platform and MorphOS is and will be our priority, but AGAIN there is room for many others!
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See? Genesi would benefit from AOS 4 (and most importantlly the Amiga brand) on their Pegasos, but this is not like MOS = AOS or Pegasos = AmigaOne. |
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