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john enger (enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk) wrote:
: $30k a year. Nothing. Hell, it'd be worth AT subsidising companies like 
: this until sales pick up.

The problem is that there's no way to control (or guarantee) how 
supported companies will spend their "welfare" checks.

john enger (enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk) wrote:
: On the other hand, once they start dishing out money to developers, 
: everyone will want some, all the time. 

Then they'll get into the situation of deciding whom gets what, how much, 
and why.  Those whom were rejected would be bitter...there might even be 
some anti-trust violations and law suits.

john enger (enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hmmm. Maybe some sort of deal could be worked out, so that AT subsidise 
: certain developers expenses, and in return get a small percentage of 
: the sales revenue? The companies stay in business, the Amy gets some 
: impressive s/w support and AT has a more attractive product to sell. 
: And another potential source of income. 

Now that VisCorp may be the new owners of Amiga Technologies, I'd like to 
see them make some announcements:

1. That the Amiga will be *THE* complete multimedia machine for the 
   information super-highway (ISH);

2. That the Amiga set-top box will be the simplest and easiest access to 
   the ISH for any consumer;

3. For a little more, the "Walker" will give consumers access to much of 
   what the set-top box provides plus the ability to function as an 
   independent computer; and,

4. That the Power Amiga will be the ultimate multimedia machine for those 
   who want to be more than mere consumers of the ISH as they develop 
   their own audio/video/text content.

Once a clear scope is defined for the Amiga, all developers need to know 
is what hardware and software resources they can build on.  It would be 
most helpful if Amiga Technologies coordinated efforts to get developers 
to integrate their products with one another by expanding on the Amiga's 
inter-process communications strengths as was done with ARexx.

Perhaps AT could sweeten the pot by building new BridgeBoards (and/or use 
Emplants) with some new and improved Janus interface with all sorts of 
data exchange and conversion utilities.  The least AT could do is to make 
their own state-of-the-art network communications cards to maintain a 
minimum standard.

On the high-end (Power Amiga), work with NewTek and other such companies 
to keep high-end content development capabilities on the Amiga.  Provide 
utilities to import and exchange data with other high-end platforms.
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