Court doc #117 is out:

"These two related cases are hereby REFERRED to the Hon. J. Kelley Arnold, United States Magistrate Judge, for the purpose of conducting a settlement conference in lieu of mediation, pursuant to Local Rule 39.1(e). The Court has set November 20, 2008 as date for this settlement conference. The specific time and place, as well as requirements for settlement memoranda, shall be set by Judge Arnold'S chambers.

Dated this 25 Day of August 2008."

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@Dandy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k

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@Dandy

Could this be truly the beginning of the end of the Amiga curse? Are we seeing light at the end of the tunnel? Is a new ERA about to begin... or is it the beginning of a new evil?

Q!

"aLL RoAdS LeAd TOo HoMe"

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@QuBe

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QuBe wrote: @Dandy Could this be truly the beginning of the end of the Amiga curse? Are we seeing late at the end of the tunnel? Is a new ERA about to begin... or is it the beginning of a new evil? Q! "aLL RoAdS LeAd TOo HoMe"

I'd say "That remains to be seen!" to all of that...

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@Dandy

Too bad it couldn't have happened before amiwest. Ah well...

@CodeSmith

... or before < any date you care to mention> ...

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@tonyw

I worry that by settling so late in the year, they won't be able to take advantage of any christmas sales.

@Dandy

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TTev6og-edU

I wouldnt expect it to be a perfect result.

@Dandy

Neither mediation or a Settlement conference can possibly succeed unless the participants are prepared to set aside claim and blame in favour of a mutually agreed course that leaves everyone in a position to get on with their business.

If they do not achieve this then it is back to claim and blame and a decision by a jury.

Noel

@Dandy

Sounds like great news. But what do both parties really want? Does Hyperion want to be compensated heavily for OS4 development, or do they want to keep OS4? Does Amiga Inc want to sell OS4 to Hyperion, or get it back completely?

Would they want to continue some sort of working relationship even? Where Hyperion develops OS4 and Amiga Inc collect royalties?

@Manu

Its more like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl77n0-Ga98

Where the "pidgeon" is Hyperion on AInc's side and AInc on Hyperions...

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@QuBe

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Could this be truly the beginning of the end of the Amiga curse?

For some reason the first thought that springs to mind after reading this is a Monte Python line.....

"Bring out your dead!"

But I hope this means the beginning of something positive. Too bad it's yet another 2 months away just to get an audeince with the arbitor. How long after that, and will they even reach an agreement?

Plaz

Every so often I come to this site just to see what is up with Amiga. While I am glad that it would seem there is an end to this mess in sight. I can with certainty that by this time I will not buy any OS4 hardware. I have no confidence in either company. Sad really, a few YEARS ago I was all excited about getting my hands on OS4. I wish them the best of luck.

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If someone enjoys marching to military music, then I already despise him.He got his brain accidently - the bone marrow in his back would have been sufficiant for him!(Albert Einstein)

It seems ironic that the man who signed a letter to President Roosevelt recommending the development of the Atomic bomb has such distain for the most innocuous military activity (marching). Modern post-mortem analysis has discovered that it was Einstein who received his brain by accident. The area of his brain (operculum) responsible for speech, reading and writing was malformed; which may explain why he misspelled the word "sufficiant"

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@QuBe

"aodedooe"
That makes no sense.

@jahc

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Does Hyperion want to be compensated heavily for OS4 development, or do they want to keep OS4?

I guess they want to be able to start making money from OS4 sales, that's why they started it after all, and the release of 4.1 also reflects this. Amiga Inc. would probably have to offer considerably more to Hyperion than the cost of development to date. If the OS was released to some up to date hardware (a PS3, or some PA-Semi based hardware or similar) it would have a lot of potential and I don't think Hyperion would want to had that over to AInc so easily.

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Does Amiga Inc want to sell OS4 to Hyperion, or get it back completely?

It's perfectly clear from what they have submitted so far in the court case that Amiga Inc want to get everything, full rights, source code, everything, they stated several times that they intend to get AmigaOS development back in-house, they don't want Hyperion to be part of the game.

@CodeSmith

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I worry that by settling so late in the year, they won't be able to take advantage of any christmas sales.

It seems that Hyperion are not holding back due to the lawsuit, as you can see they just released AmigaOS 4.1 with a large number of new and important features, and I'm sure other goodies will come before xmas too.

@COBRA

Yeah, but what really counts (getting OS4 off the dinosaur that is the AmigaOne) can't happen this year at all. Why? simple: Hyperion said that it takes about a month to port OS4 to a new PPC platform. If after mediation the judge rules that Hyperion is allowed to keep selling OS4, and then they demo OS4 running on the SAM440 in less than a month, Amiga Inc can drag them back to court for having illegally developed the SAM440 version of OS4 before mediation was complete. Trust me, we'll probably see a lot of announcements after mediation is complete (assuming the whole thing doesn't just collapse), but nothing on the market until around February.

@COBRA

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Amiga Inc. would probably have to offer considerably more to Hyperion than the cost of development to date.

Why? The value of something is not how much it cost to develop it, but how much money you can expect to make from it in the future.

@CodeSmith

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If after mediation the judge rules

It's *not* mediation, it's a settlement conference (which in the Hyperion v Amino case is *instead of* mediation).

Which means there is no "the judge rules". Either the parties agree, voluntarily, or it all goes back to where it was before the settlement conference was requested, as if that conference had never happened.