@SpaceDruid

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SpaceDruid wrote: So if Amiga Inc no longer own OS4 (or at least might not be able to prove they do), does this affect other versions of the OS or just the code Hyperion contracted out? If the latter, then buggering hell. The Amiga desktop will remain in developer limbo. A hobby version from Hyperion and a (even longer) delayed OS5 from Amiga Inc. The boat is sailing on both camps... If the former, hello! Roll up govna. Get your geniune OS4 ere. Two boxes for a tenna. Get em cheap while they last. Don't mind the label saying 3.1 - They are genuine OS4's I tell yah. Roll up, roll up.

If Amiga Delaware can not prove they are the successor to Amiga Washington's rights on OS 4.0 it will likely open a huge opportunity for Genesi to attack the DE ownership angle. Amiga Delaware may not even have the right to use the Boing Ball etc. And if that asset never moved Bolten can act on trying to get his hands on it as compensation, along with the old landlord for Amiga Washington, etc.

The desktop will not remain in limbo if this happens IMHO. I think we'd have OS 4 on SAM near immediately. OS 4.0 on Efika would likely become an official project, Elbox might start flowing more hardware etc.

OS 5, my take is it likely does not exist, and likely never will, at least not from Amiga Delaware.

Last edited by fairlanefastback on 13-Jun-2007 at 03:08 PM.

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Well, I think that's good news..

Maybe AInc will strike up a new deal with hyperion instead of continuing now... Maybe leave hyperion develop the OS for them and they get object code to run on whatever hardware they want... There's no reason they couldn't develop their own hardware drivers if they really wanted.. All they need is the core OS in binary really then build their own drivers and software for it...

I'm not really taking sides with anyone at the moment...
Hyperion HAS done all the work... but Amiga IS the owner of the IP...

I just hope the following happens:

Mess gets sorted once and for all, new hardware with OS4 final gets released

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