Congratulations to Hyperion & the Legal team.
@ Wayne
Sods law about this re: selling this site
@Editor,
I have no qualms about selling the Web site, regardless of what obsolete and unobtainable hardware Hyperion choose to port the OS to. I'm not even quite sure I'd care if they ported it to an off-the-shelf, current, Intel Mac to be honest.
The problem I see, and have always seen, is that regardless of who the "winner" of the lawsuit turned out to be, the OS is still absolutely worthless without three things. Cheap and fast commodity hardware, programmers and software.
This is 2009, soon to be 2010, and we are a far cry from the massive development community of 1987/88. Back in those days, there were far fewer choices for developers. Namely, there was Unix, PC running DOS, Mac, or the Amiga, and the specs on the Amiga were 10x any of the others at the time.
Now, that's simply not the case any more, and frankly, it'll be impossible to attract any real development base to any future OS platform *unless* Hyperion pull the stick out and port it to modern, cheap, commodity hardware (aka Intel)..
In regards to Hyperion and all this talk of porting, please keep in mind that they did NOT win the right to develop new hardware and/or call it an "Amiga". They simply -- apparently -- won the rights to AmigaOS 4.x... It would still be up to Amiga Inc (from what I understand as an armchair lawyer) to develop any hardware to match the OS if you want some new machine to be labeled an "Amiga".
edit: back to the point though... I'm at a point in my life (unemployed without prospects, and quickly approaching bankruptcy) where -- even if Hyperion does port it to something top-shelf, I can't guarantee I'll be interested. As such, better the site goes to a new team with fresh eyes and a more dedicated heart than for me to keep passively participating.
Wayne
