Well, from what Shannon told me, Hyperion has a case in that originally, they were to spearhead the OS release. They have and will have the ability to use the code however they see fit, so long as their contract holds out.
If AI busts, they can use that as a way of getting a new license from either Gateway, who still owns most original Amiga IPs, or from the purchaser of Amiga licenses from the AI bust. (assuming that AI does indeed fold, which I am not hoping for.)
There are alot of additions that are indeed questionable about hte OS (arexx as you so said), but we already know that the new OS is on a HAL, which is what AI was claiming to do in the first place with the DE.
Even Hyperion said it is waiting only on the graphics.library to boot OS4 on the A1. How far away that is, i am not certain, but once it's on the A1 and booting, technically it's not amiga anymore. That right there is Thendic's whole claim with the Pegasos, it may act like an amiga, but it's NOT an amiga. Since it's not amiga, they have solidified the wall between them and AI, making their own case more viable. (IE, 'Yeah, we have this OS that works like Amiga, but it's not amiga. AI signed a contract with us for rights to OS4.0, but because we refuse to use a single OS, in this regards OS4.0, the contract was pulled by AI, which (I haven't seen the contracts, I'm not a lawyer, so i don't know if this is the actual case.) is in violation of our original contract.')
AI needs to pull their heads out of their arses and be quick about it. The only thing that keeps them afloat is chapter 11 and the few zealots that with their own words, attempt to patch every hole McEwen has made in his attempts to scuttle Amiga.
We already know that the licenses for Amiga IP has already passed (Kudos to Gateway. If they don't have something decent to offer, kill it and give it to someone else.) and AI scrambled to snatch them back up again. Makes you wonder what's really going on around there.
Personally, I think it's an atrocity that the 'CEOs' of Amiga get 500k salaries, yet employess haven't even been paid yet.
To have AI go bust now would only cripple Amiga even more. Even if they were to sell out their IPs, if the company that bought them didn't push a thousand fold harder to get OS4.0 into this dead market, it's efforts and Hyperion's are for naught.
It's crunch time, Ladies and Gentlemen and you know it. If AI dies now, we know amiga dies with it. While I love Hyperion, they don't have the money to get the Amiga IPs and unless some idiot like me forks over the cash to bail Amiga out, it's Commodore all over again. :-(
'Only fools dance where angels fear to tread.' - Shakespeare
How many of you are still dancing??