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Posts: 2794 from 2006/3/21
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Kronos wrote:
@amigadave
You have to remember that the core of the Amino&Hype contract was that both sides thought they had just pulled a big one over the other one (50.000$ buyback vs. bancruptsy clause), anyone else taking that deal would either have to be morally atleast as corrupt as Ben Hermans or would have been thrown under the bus.
Or in short there is a very good reason why MorphOS did not end up named AmigaOS........
That is what happens when you put two crooks in the same room to make a deal with each other, everyone gets screwed!
Its just like politics. Soon, it looks like the American voters will have a choice to vote for a financial criminal, or a raving lunatic, who happens to also be a financial criminal, to be their next President.
Given enough time without interference from other greedy people, or companies, I believe that McBill and the MorphOS Dev. Team could have come to an agreement, specially once McBill saw how MorphOS was shaping up, and how talented the MorphOS Dev. Team members are. I don't know the exact history and dates of when work on MorphOS began, in relation to the dates discussions regarding creating AmigaOS4.x between McBill and the MorphOS Dev. Team, but my impression is that work on MorphOS had begun before those discussions. I don't know what state of completion MorphOS was in, when talks with McBill took place.
@Jim,
Yes, McBill wanted complete control of the OS that would be created as AmigaOS4.x. I can see why the MorphOS Dev. Team did not want that to happen, but I also understand Amiga Inc.'s position of wanting to contract people to create something for a price, and to then own what Amiga Inc. had paid for, although Amiga Inc. most likely couldn't come up with the amount of money MorphOS would have been really worth at that time, and certainly couldn't sustain development of AmigaOS4.x into the future, unless it was completed quickly enough, at the time we still had several hundred thousand users willing to buy AmigaOS4.x and then pay for upgrades to keep the development going forward.
[ Edited by amigadave 23.06.2016 - 15:09 ]MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
