Amiga Inc have sold the AmigaOS

[KennyR]

Erm, already posted this in the forums before I realised it was frontpage. My apologies...

I'm sure everyone must be itching to ask these questions, but I'm getting there first, even if I don't expect much of a reply:

1) Is this really for real?

2) Who the hell are KMOS and where can a person find out more about them?

3) Why didn't we hear about this earlier when it actually happened and not almost a year later?

3) How will this affect Genesi's threatened aquisition of OS4 as being connected to the DE?

4) Will OS4 still be allowed to be marketed with the Amiga name? If so, would Amiga Inc. still get royalties? If they do, can Genesi still claim its linked to DE?

5) Will KMOS open up the hardware market and allow OS4 to be run on a wider range of PPC boards, such as Terons, Macs, and Pegasos? Would it even be up to them what OS4 was licenced to run on?

[KennyR]

Hattig wrote:
About the same amount as it will affect Genesi's threatened acquisition of Microsoft PocketPC as being connected to Amiga DE I'd imagine. They aren't the same product, however much bbrv is disingeneous in the court case. Maybe Amiga will be able to afford a lawyer now to actually defend themselves.

Regardless of the actual validity of the claim, it's already been judged in Thendic/Genesi's favour as being linked to the DE. I'm not sure the judgement is reversible.

[KennyR]

Hattig wrote:
I'm also sure that KMOS will also ensure that this situation does not occur by supplying a lawyer to stop bbrv's snatch-and-grab operation from a dying bleeding company trying to breath its last breath.

Thats rather over dramatic, and also making AInc out to be the innocent victims destroyed by an evil world. In reality, AInc made terrible business choices and jumped over the cliff into badly advised ventures with little idea of how they'd do anything. They haven't yet fallen: right now they're hanging from the ankles of the Amiga community pulling them down every day that the IPs aren't used for anything productive. Genesi may love getting the boot in, but I really wish the community would finally kick AInc off themselves and save them the trouble.

If they weren't called Amiga I very much doubt anyone would still support this company.

[KennyR]

amigabill wrote:
> Regardless of the actual validity of the claim, it's already been judged in Thendic/Genesi's favour
> as being linked to the DE. I'm not sure the judgement is reversible.

Where is this posted? I know the judgement was in favor of Genesi for the original claim for DE, and that Buck-man had filed for an ammendment to include OS4, but hadn't heard of a judgement on said ammendment yet...

There is nothing certain here and I don't pretend to know the facts. I'm speaking of certain parts of court documents published in an ANN thread (which I can't seem to reach now :-().

I'm not certain if the scans are genuine or not (but they probably are), and they seem to be rather vague and hard to understand and read, but they seem to link DE and OS4 because of Amiga Inc's own earlier rhetoric of linking them itself on Amiga.com. If you can find them you can look for yourself.