> Bill was probably still holding on to the hope that his friend would act responsibly.

No longer are they "friends" I'd say:

"Aladdin4D current programmer "Deron Kazmaier" was fired on May 9th, 2013 do to lackluster performance. It's doubtful that he ever had the technical skill for developing 3D animation software. He was never even able to figure out how to make the program render anything but garbage. I blame myself in part for believing he could work on this type of software without any prior proof of concepts from him."
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=734255

Btw, what's also interesting is the Wikipedia article on Aladdin4D and its history. Does suspiciously look like the DiscreetFX CEO is an avid Wikipedia editor ;-)