I thought that might ne the case. Wow, now that's a realy f'd up position for the Amiga market.
Indeed, and if there is any way of making this situation worse, I can't think of it.
Hyperion is allowed to use the terms mentioned before. AInc. can't use AmigaOS, but retains all rights including the right to the Amiga name and the copanyy they license the use of the Amiga name to isn't interested in AROS or AOS (and according to my converation with Barry he actually approached the MOS team, who told him the same thing that we've all heard - no X86 port for the foreseeable future).
The problem is that the court ruling specifically prohibits Amiga.Inc from going into competition with Hyperion. If Barry were to start selling a rebadged AROS as AmigaOS5, both Barry and Amiga.inc could well be landed in it.
That's not to say Barry can't sell Amiga brand PCs, just not with AROS or any other Amiga-like installed on it.
This entire sistuation is only going to confuse the average consumer and make it even more impossible to create a renewed interest in the Amiga brand.
Welcome to the Amiga community.
Now do you guys understand why I don't care if MOS or AROS carry an Amiga brand?
What was done in the past is cool, but it can be run on almost any platform.
What's to come in the future has to stand on its own merits (against some really well backed competitors that all offer OS' with a solid foundation and much bigger markets to draw developers).
Thing is, it's gone past that, Amiga's one and only selling point now is nostalgia, for the reasons you point to. And thanks to the hinky legal situation, the name cannot go forward at this point either.
I've said it before, Hyperion product acts to attract developers to the PPC
Hyperion has attracted nothing but flack (a lot of it well deserved) for being little more than a pariah. Under it's stewardship, the Amiga community has shrunk to around a tenth of it's size in ~2000.
I'm sorry, but I simply cannot agree to the above statement.