My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

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and sues Aros out of existence a la SCO.

Aros is not a company and in the case of SCO it was the party who sued who died

greets,
Staf.

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And to connect to the quoted statement above, is there really *any* winners from way the court case ended?

Hyperion has the exclusive right to market, develop, sell AmigaOS 4. AFAIK they are not legally bound to PPC anymore. I think Hyperion would consider this advantageous for them.

Amiga Inc. has the Amiga trademark to license. Probably they also consider this advantageous, we'll see how good this turns out. They are not allowed to compete with AmigaOS 4 and beyond though.

greets,
Staf.

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Amiga Inc still owns and controls *all relevant* (in 2011) IP. The way I see it, they aren't the losers in the deal.

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Nice spin on the history. And I thought that A.Inc sued Hyperion to get the right for AOS4. AFAICS they did not succeed in that. I don't think they had to sue Hyperion to keep the trademark on the Amiga name or for OS3.x

greets,
Staf.

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I took TMHG's "relevant IP" as meaning as far as what AI has as far as source code, trademarks, and copyrights.

I know, and my point is that they already got that before they sued Hyperion.
Ok, summary of the history (with my spin on it of course ):
- A.Inc: Hyperion, we own the right to AOS4 give it to us.
- Hyperion: No sir, sue us if you want it.
- A. Inc sues
- A.Inc & Hyperion fight rolling over the floor...
- Hyperion: We won, we got the exclusive right to AmigaOS4 and next versions.
- A.Inc: We won, we kept our right to OS3,x and the Amiga name

greets,
Staf.