I defended Bill McEwen at the time the big fight was going on. The reason, for me, was mostly about empathy for a very friendly and kind person with good intentions but that has fallen into the hands of a fickle investors. The investor had his own agenda that was not about the development of computers, but more a question of reducing its tax (I think).
But we must be fair to Bill McEwen! Without him the name "Amiga" probably owned by someone contact site or porn site.
It is also thanks to him that we have AmigaOS later than 3.1, and today, AmigaOS 4.x
He also created the specification for the Amiga One and name AmigaNG.
He created, as many are hesitant, AA1, which was based on the TAO software and later AA2 with all of its own software. AA2 is also said to be a small part that was broken out of OS5. I know that AA2 exist because I have it here at home and work with it sometimes. It is a package of about 200MB, which you can develop software (mostly games) on multiple platforms through a single program source. AA2 is extremely well written with a superb manual. AA1 and AA2 were introduced to get rid of or reduce the dependence of the investor.

Bill McEwens big mistake was to go out and promise different things when it was decided that it would be done. When investors suddenly wanted to use the funds to another or when the money ran out for the investor (for example 2001) did not promises kept. This created the first question but (as always) pulled it also attracts hateful critics who over the years has been tough on Bill McEwen.

Bill McEwen also happened to get two difficult personal periods, a stress disorder and his daughter's death. I could then also read the hateful posts, around these two personal difficult experiences for Bill, who totally lacked empathy.

Several contributions to the debate at that time would in many countries to be actionable.

Anyway, Bill McEwen intent was to Amiga back to the market where the hardware would be manufactured by different companies while the operating system would be under AmigaInc control but developed by different contracting companies. The idea was good but Bill McEwen kindness and view of other people who are just good people made him and AmigaInc vulnerable to those who want to pluck ideas out of his hands. One of those who stole from AmigaInc was Hyperion. They took advantage of a clause in the contract to come to save AmigaOS on AmigaInc disappeared. AmigaInc did not disappear but they changed their name from AmigaInc to KMOS and back to AmigaInc again. The former AmigaInc is now called Amino is an empty business without financial or assets.
Hyperion believes that they signed the contract with the former AmigaInc (Amino) that has no assets and therefore satisfy the requirement that no more. Therefore the Hyperion that AmigaOS was their associated rights. This was not the court with the considering that Amiga and Hyperion would settle out of court with the help of the court. When AmigaInc investors died lacked AmigaInc money to go on and forced to sign doklumentet giving Hyperion the right to use the name AmigaOS and some other names. Ownership belongs still AmigaInc without themselves may use the names or produce something that looks like AmigaOS names and software.

so is an elaborate legal theft to the company where one of the companies are gullible.

Errors Bill McEwen made over the years was (I think):
- Bet too hard in the initial stage
- For the kind
- Relying on other
- Mooched just an investor
- Promised too much and too early (due to lack of business experience)

The pure lies (as 56 employees in India) was an order from the investor (I think) who wanted to give the appearance of a larger company to deduct money from it. I could "see" the Bill McEwen that he was very uncomfortable when he mentioned the 56 employees. It was true that AmigaInc bought a company with 56 employees in India as the cat out of business. Before the bankruptcy had AmigaInc had signed a contract with the company that they would develop software for AA. So completely untrue, it is not with India.
Kent Arena is a project that I think Bill McEwen was tricked by the investor to believe that it would sound authentic. It was probably about the same as the paragraph above. Bill McEwens son plays hockey in the arena and is involved in this for some time.

Otherwise, Bill McEwen been incredibly tough and really weathered the storm with his usual smile. He has never lost composure and never said a bad word about anyone who have thrown shit at him. But above all, he has always returned and will probably come back again.

I did not always agree with Bill in his ideas but he's an incredibly kind person who should have had a very different response than what he got.

Bill, to me, you are welcome back, we need more good people in this weird world called the Amiga community.

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(iContain and C=USA) got licence just because they offered either big cash or big % of their revenue.

The thing people continue to conveniently forget here is that IContain (Todd) contacted Aminet about the Amiga software library.
Why would they do that unless they had been given the impression that there was some ability to use said software and the "Amiga" license they had procured from Itec LLC?
The above is a rhetorical question. heh.

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When a certain Todd Kleperis contacted the Aminet team two days ago to "discuss your library of Amiga titles" and ask for "guidance as to how to work with the existing fan base", the initial reaction over over at Aminet was confusion.

source

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@Rob

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Rich Woods created a timeline of Changes of Amiga IP ownership from 1997-2007. http://merlancia.us/amiga-hyperion/Time-LineOfChangesInAmigaIPOwnership.pdf

Good summary, + add C=USA as licencee and enforcer of IP.

@linnar

So iContain got the temporary free licence?
Sounds almost like Amiga Inc is a charity

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vox wrote: @Rob Quote: Rich Woods created a timeline of Changes of Amiga IP ownership from 1997-2007. http://merlancia.us/amiga-hyperion/Time-LineOfChangesInAmigaIPOwnership.pdf Good summary, + add C=USA as licencee and enforcer of IP. @linnar So iContain got the temporary free licence? Sounds almost like Amiga Inc is a charity

I do not know how the contract is written, but it was no ordinary licensing of the name. Cusa could easily get them to stop using the "Amiga".

* A wild guess: *
/../ [I deletet it]
* Please note that I'm guessing wildly! It may be completely wrong! *

I will try to find the text that says little about the agreement with iContain.

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