Joined: 20-Oct-2010 Posts: 1175
From: Bear, Delaware USA
@Rob
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Rob wrote: @iggy
I think you're getting Amiga OS4 mixed up with AmigaDE. If the contract had been delivered upon I don't see how it would have stopped MorphOS from being ported to the Pegasos.
MorphOS was always going to run on the Pegasos and MorphOS would have been OS4 if Amiga Inc and Ralph Schmidt had been able to come to an agreement.
That last part is quite true. Had Ralph and Bill come to an agreement then there never would have been a need for Hyperion's work. But there was an obvious difference of opinion on what rights Thendic had been assigned. The opinion you're quoting is Bill McEwen's and does not reflect the judgment of the court (which Amiga Inc sought relief from). Further, after the court battles Bill announced that the intellectual property had been transfered top KMOS which then transferred it to Amiga Inc. Delaware.
The real question (that has never been answered) is if Escom or Gateway never truly owned the rights to Amniga OS how could they be re-assigned. And Bill's contract with Gateway was a license for trademarks, not a contract transferring ownership of intellectual properties. Several other companies had licensed or even acquired co-author status on the Amiga operating system well before Amiga Washington had incorporated.
Amiga Inc.'s claim to ownership to AmigaOS is highly suspect and the court settlement between Amiga Inc. and Hyperion does little to clear up this ambiguity. Instead it just solidifies Amiga Inc's claim over OS3.1 and Hyperion's right to use 3.1 to develop 4.0 and beyond.
In a word, it is a shared agreement/opinion between both entities of questionable validity.
It would be a serious mistake for either Amiga Inc. or Hyperion to assume that they have a strong enough claim to this property to ever take another company to court over it.
I think you're getting Amiga OS4 mixed up with AmigaDE. If the contract had been delivered upon I don't see how it would have stopped MorphOS from being ported to the Pegasos.
MorphOS was always going to run on the Pegasos and MorphOS would have been OS4 if Amiga Inc and Ralph Schmidt had been able to come to an agreement.
I mean this with absolute respect, but your history and timelines are a bit lacking. AmigaDE predates MorphOS public releases and was indeed marketed as AmigaOS. Amiga Inc failed to deliver AmigaOS to Thendic/Genesi.
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