Does Hyperion own the rights to OS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9?

[Fats]

Yes I got that now!
Well, AROS is certainly a clean-room reimplementation, but AFAIK its currently not binary compatible (even if recompiled in its current state for 68k). Or am I wrong in this?

Yes, but I don't see why it is so important that AROS is not binary compatible at this very moment. People are hard at work to get this going. AFAWK no technical reasons are there why we can't get it going; binary compatibility has always been a serious consideration when technical decisions about AROS have been made. This has even lead to some people start the AnubisOS project because they found that this binary compatibility was holding AROS back.

greets,
Staf.

[Fats]

AROS will not be affected either, but it will also still not be close to be as usable as neither of the two others. MorphOS is Amiga done right! AROS may be a nice hobby for the involved developers, but from a users point of view, it's stumbling in MorphOS footsteps.

All in your opinion of course ...

I could argue that the only platform for which there is no investment made in new hardware is MOS. OS 3.x has Natami, FPGAArgcade; OS4 Sam460 & X1000 and AROS the iMiCA & the AresOne...
But I'm not going to

greets,
Staf.

[Fats]

Depends on how you connect. As long as your router is happy to have an external facing IPv6 address, I think IPv4 is wide enough for most people's LAN requirements

But once IPv6 only web sites starts to show up I don't think a router can save you as the browser would get a IPv6 address when doing the DNS lookup.

greets,
Staf.