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Originally Posted by Foebane
Why would he do such a thing? I always blamed Mehdi Ali, but I forgot he wasn't the only Amiga killer.
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Ali was a pawn of Irving Gould. Gould had a long history of being problematic, even back to the beginning by tossing out Jack Tramiel from his own company.
Gould loved having a jet to fly around and didn't care about the company he was responsible for.
Rumor has it that Gould was Jealous of Rattigan and that is why he canned him. Jealous because he was respected and put Amiga on very solid ground, something alien to Gould...
Rattigan was an exceptional leader who respected the engineers and that was brilliant and capable. I could easily argue that if he stayed at Amiga, the Amiga would have replaced Apple in the industry. Apple was weak at the time.