@samface

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As a personal side note, I'm getting the impression that alot of people are disregarding the fact that Hyperion, just like Amiga Inc., hasn't added much code to the AmigaOS either.

I think the vast majority of us here is aware that Hyperion has consisted of only one or two people for quite a few years now. I personally, when talking about OS4, use the term "Hyperion" as shorthand for "the group of programmers and testers hired by Hyperion".

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Most, if not all, seems to be done by third party contractors that are also suing Hyperion, for not paying them. If this is true, it would mean that even if the outome of the Amiga Inc. vs Hyperion court case goes in Hyperion's favor, AmigaOS4 would still not be Hyperion's.

True, but it would belong to the people who wrote OS4, as opposed to a set of people who have been either ignoring it or actively sabotaging its future by refusing to sell licenses to prospective hardware manufacturers.

It doesn't matter anyway, technology is not standing still and by the time the lawsuit gets resolved, OS4 won't have anything left to offer. Portables like cell phones and PDAs already have CPUs that run at hundreds of MHz and have several MB of memory, so very soon running "heavyweight" OSs like Windows XP on your handheld won't be a problem (heck, iPhones run MacOSX already). OS4's major advantage, its low resource requirements, won't be important any more and the only thing left will be the lack of modern features like full OpenGL or a JVM.

@samface

This would absolutely be true.
However AmigaInc is not a single entity,
and they obviously do not respect the roadmap they
have made themselves.

For me Hyperion develop AmigaOS,
whole AmigaInc spoils the name,
and who develops is who matters.
He makes Amiga alive.

Only way to make me thing otherwise is
that AmigaInc delivers AmigaOS 4.x software
also or enables some conmapnies to dos,
as well as they PROMISED long time ago PPC hardware
and even price and hardware range.

Find me any news of AMigaOS while there is planty
at community sites. AmigaInc speaks only
of its as someting abandoned and licence terminated.

Shame on them.

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