Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Inc. reach settlement

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@Editor,

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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.
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Hmmmmm - now they are free to support available and affordable High-End PPC hardware like this YDL PowerStation: http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/powerstation/specs.html

Prices: http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/powerstation/price.html

I'm sure once AmigaOS supported at least one core, the developers would be attracted to develop on this machine and to take advantage of the underlying power. I'd expect the development of more modern power apps and an OS development towards multicore capability and 64 bit architecture from that.

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)..
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While I agree that it might be worth the effort to port the OS to Intel in the long term, it might be easier and less hassle (endianess) in the short term to support the box mentioned above with the current PPC OS and to modernize it there (as mentioned above). That should attract the "development base" you mentioned.

[Dandy]

I feel there is some information missing about the agreement. An agreement is normally made by two parties that find that they get some benefits from the agreement.

Maybe AI felt it as enough benefit that they were not sentenced because of the fraudulous transfer of IP from AI (W) to AI(D)...

Hyperion get the rights to the OS, but what did Amiga Inc get out of it?

The chance to get out of it without being sentenced?

Did Amiga Inc realize they were in deep sh*t, and just made the agreement to avoit a counter-lawsuit?

I would not say "a counter-lawsuit" - with this agreement they avoided being sentenced in THIS lawsuit (and obviously in all other pending, too).

And who is paying for the lawsuit anyway - lawyers are far away from cheep. Amiga is claimed by many to be near bankrupt, and I guess Hyperion havent been making to much money on OS4 sales to pay everything either..

That remains to be seen, I'd say...

[Dandy]

@Wayne

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I really couldn't say what Amiga are doing for money.  

Launder it?
I strongly suspect AInc's main purpose was to serve as money laundring machine or tax-depletion-model for Pentti's doubious money transactions.

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It makes me wonder why they don't get it together

Incompetence or an indication that they never intended to really be a productive company.

and become the games/apps portal for Android phones-Amiga did actually invent the iPhone app store concept, if the execution (and to be fair, the technology and vision on the part of 'partner' companies) was lacking.  

LoL!
I've never been interested phonies and never will...
All I want is a powerfull desktop or tower!

One of the biggest complaints about non-iPhone OSes and the equipment that they run on, is no centralized app store.  

So you really like the idea having to pay each time you - lets say - write an e-mail on your phonie?
Or having to pay each time you want to play mp3s on it?
Or ...

Once again Amiga invents it,

All they ever invented was how to rip 50 € for fraudulous coupon schemes from Amigans and loads hollow marketing fluff.

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I go off on this cel phone tangent because Amiga themselves supposedly went off on it several years ago.  Supposedly they had a crew of East Indian programmers working on whatever it was they were/are working on.  if their AA concept could work seamlessly with one executable on RIM devices as well as on Android, they'd be sitting on fat stacks of cash pretty quickly.
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Just annother indication that they never intended to produce anything tangible...