Re:Here's what I think really happened (Score 1)

How interesting that a post that starts out grousing about "TOTALLY uninformed speculation" thereafter indulges in same as freely as possible. Okay you may have had what YOU see as an ANALAGOUS situation, but what do you know EXACTLY about the ins and outs of the Amiga at Gateway? Do you work there? Have you? Do you know ANY of the insiders? Doesn't sound like it. For just one example, what business in the world would lay out $13 million just to sate an exec with a yen and not expect to get some actual economic return? Maybe they can indulge such fancies at Micro$loth, but Gateway is a fur-piece away from being a half-billion-dollar company. It's been widely reported that Gateway picked up the Amiga for the trademarks and patents in order to accumulate licensing fees. Then the Amiga faithful struck and a little light went on over Ted Waitt's head (especially since he was already looking to get out from under the vast thumb of the Wintel duopoly). Where it all went wrong from there, I don't know. Perhaps the old "Amiga curse" story isn't the falacy I'd thought. I surely can't see how or why all these fits and starts have plagued Amiga development since nearly its inception. If Gateway goes under anytime soon, then I'll guess we'll have definitive proof! Still, I wonder about the idea that there won't be ANY Amiga MCC or market for same. If we'll all remember back to March when Collas started outlining his vision for the Amiga, he never said Amiga itself would knock out machines. Rather, they'd determine a "reference" platform and leave it to third parties to produce the actual hardware. And lest we forget, Corel has already announced support for an Amiga OE compatible version of WordPerfect 8, with WordPerfect Office to follow. Granted that software is as currently vaporous as anything Amiga's been talking about to this point (save OS 3.5), but why would Corel even announce this if they didn't feel that there'd be a machine to run the app on? For that matter, why, as the recent Business Week article speculates, would they even bother to name an Internet networking OE "Amiga" without a computer system of some sort to go with it? Let's face it: the mainstream press is notoriously inaccurate about the Amiga with only a few notable exceptions (Wired). Since Petro says we're going to get an official announcement this week, let's wait till then to bemoan the Amiga's latest fate. And hell, even if what's rumored is true, how can this kill the Amiga if the already announced third-party developers follow though with their promised soft/hardware? If these companies felt it was up to them before to pursue the Classic Amiga market without Amiga, then the Boing ball will be definitively in their court if the worst occurs.