@geen_naam

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Some consider diversity preachers also as extemists.

@tygre

If being pro-democracy and pro-science equates you to being an extremist or wanting better healthcare to a "communist", then so be it I guess.

Tying your shoes probably qualify you as an extremist in some group's eyes these days.

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@sauce

Wow, your mommy must be proud of you. Amazing that you know how to operate a piece of tech at all.

Thanks for proving my point about extremists. Posting and image of some kkk member just because you do not agree with someone is pretty extreme in my book. You even create a new account while it's pretty clear who you are.

But I do not judge you on your extremist actions because this forum is about amiga and not about policital views.

That was my message all along. Hard to understand, right?

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Article on most recent thread topic: Hyperion: Ben Hermans temporarily relieved from director position

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number6 wrote: @thread Article on most recent thread topic: Hyperion: Ben Hermans temporarily relieved from director position english german #6

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We approached Mr. Hermans and asked for a statement regarding the Ben Hermans BV issue. Mr. Hermans told us he can't really comment on this, as it's being handled by his lawyer currently. He gave us the following statement: "There is no issue of 'insolvency', there was failure to file the yearly account for 2019 in time due to the accountancy firm not having the time to complete this in time apparently due to the COVID restrictions including but not limited to 'work from home' restrictions and very limited staff allowed in offices. It would be inappropriate for me to comment further without approval for my lawyer."

@TRIPOS: Why "LOL"? As far as I know Ben Hermans Statement is true and you can check it public (although not in English).

And even if you read the full news-item from C. Gutjahr at amiga-news (who isn't exactly a friend of Ben) you will notice, that this is only a formal matter and he is not in danger to loose his position as Hyperion director.

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2021-05-00077-EN.html

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@AP

For those following history and perhaps missed this.

Since this isn't the first time, and we have a clear record of how such an event can transpire:

From the page 1 of this thread summary

The links in post #1 should suffice.
In the above case it was the Hyperion Entertainment accounts.

btw-those are also missing 2020 filings currently.

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he is not in danger to loose his position as Hyperion director.

But is he director currently, until this matter is addressed?

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Since number6 is too polite for his own good, let me translate that into something AP might understand (and immediately dismiss):

If Ben starts blaming his accountant, that's s a dead giveaway that shit has hit the fan.

"LOL" is exactly the right kind of reaction here.

The man that didn’t need a lawyer because he himself is a lawyer now refuse to speak without his lawyer present.

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@cgutjahr: You should add this to your news-item on an.de. Maybe just as opener: "Hyperion: Shit hits the fan!"

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2021-05-00077-EN.html

number6 is not too polite he tries to be neutral and objective. You could learn from him.

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@AP

Or he knows what has happened during the 10 years you were away...

@AP

There is not a lot to liquidat, what Hyperion own, they don’t really own, most of was never paid for, the developer worked on it, can as easy clam to own it, they currently fight for Hyperion unique contract to be only rightfully allowed to work on AmigaOS4.x, and who will willing buy any of this? Can he turn around the company and make it profitable? Jean Louis de Chaffoy de Courcelles has an challenge. Fix this legal mess and make a profit.

It will take a lot to fix the legal mess Ben H & Bill McEwen and his investors created.

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Afaik, their "NDA" is a bit more than non-disclosure. You'll also transfer ownership.

@geen_naam

If Hyperion has broken the work contract by not paying the developer the developer has legal right to compensation. And can be considered a creditor.

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---travail/documents/publication/wcms_745455.pdf

"1. In the event of the bankruptcy or judicial liquidation of an undertaking, the workers employed therein shall be treated as privileged creditors either as regards wages due to them for service rendered during such a period prior to the bankruptcy or judicial liquidation as may be prescribed by national laws or regulations, or as regards wages up to a prescribed amount as may be determined by national laws or regulations"

https://www.godfreylegal.com/when-non-disclosure-agreements-protect-criminals/

The NDA does not protect the company from commiting RAPE, the NDA is not valid if the company has commit crime, abuse on its worker.

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Hyperion is now 1 person, and that person is insolvent.

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ps. ONLY THE PENITENT MAN WILL PASS!!!!!!!!!!!

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@NutsAboutAmiga

disclaimer: I'm not educated in (international) law. My english isn't good enough to use the correct legal terms.

If those developers signed a contract where it was agreed to be paid a x amount of money for the work the've done in service of Hyperion then they should sue Hyperion for breach of contract.
I think that there are two outcomes:
1) Hyperion has the money and is ordered to pay what is owed.
2) Hyperion doesn't have the money and is declared insolvent. The executer will discover if there's a opportunity for a restart where a new owner is willing to take over the debts. If not, assets are sold and what's left after substraction of Tax debt and other priority creditors will be divided over the plaintiffs.

I'm not sure if you automatically own the software that you've created in service of a company when they fail to pay you unless it was a buyer supplier construction.

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@Rose: Maybe. I am sure he knows more about the details, because I am more interested in actual using AmigaOS than knowing every little detail about the lawsuits and the financial stuff in the background.

The other thing is: I heard so many times that "Hyperion/Ben is done this time!" in the past that I tend to believe the official statement for now. It looks more like a formal, solvable problem to me than the end of Hyperion. That doesn't mean that I think that there are no financial troubles. But let´s wait and see, ok?

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I'm not sure if you automatically own the software that you've created in service of a company when they fail to pay you unless it was a buyer supplier construction.

Traditionally, developers aren't getting paid to create code for Hyperion (or, in the past, H&P) - they license the finished product to the OS distributor, usually with some limitations (duration of the license, certain OS release, certain CPU).

Stephan Rupprecht's contract is part of the publicly available AInc-Hyperion court documents, but I'm too lazy to search for it right now.

The new NDA, which contains clauses that apparently (according to ben Hermans, at least) transfer rights to the code to Hyperion is newer than that. I'd have to check, but I'd say it came up in the last 5-7 years, i.e. long after anybody was promised payment. There was a push to have existing developers sign the new NDA a few years ago.

@MEGA_RJ_MICAL

Actually "Judicial liquidator appointed." and insolvent are not the same thing.

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Details friend number6, details.

One might entail the other.
Might!

But alas, as we came to learn through this decade of miseries,
in the world of our common friend Ben, "might" always translates to "is".

#MEGA

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Point taken.

No worries RJ, I stopped putting value to people's "words" more than a decade ago.

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