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Need scope, resolving from global level on down.

Who is Chuck Moore?

TPL is the parent corporation of Intellasys.

Intellasys is a company cofounded by Chuck for producing his SeaForth processor.

What part of SeaForth does he own? He made all of the IP and personally backed more than $20M of the $40M invested.

In recent events, everyone on the SeaForth team was fired. Chuck included. TPL has laid claim to his patents and has paid him less than 1/3 of his contract.

edit: This is a summary of Chuck's published views. I am sure TPL's lawyers have very different views. I do hope Chuck's tech survives this.

A business guy took advantage of an engineer who designs insanely cool processors that won't sell because the average developer wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. Lawyers make money. Trolls flood color forth mailing list.

there is a thread with details on comp.lang.forth. although i still don't know what's happening.

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We may still see the chip. Just recently they announced a new product. They might not sell it stateside, though.

Also, from what I can gather, the chip is done. The final testing was planned for 2008Q4, and everyone was fired 2009Q1.

edit: further reading makes this seem less likely. TPL's history is massively towards license and litigation, very little with actual product-making.