Why did Amiga Inc announce this?

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T_Bone wrote:
I mean, it's been a year since this has happened, so why now? Why did they decide that now was the time to go public with this secret?

Yup, the more you look at it the more dodgy it seems... Let's not forget that there is a still doubt as to wether or not Escom actually purchaced the rights to the AmigaOS IP, and if subsequent owners of the brand name actually have the right to use it...

Ahhh, well. It's not like it really matters anymore any way :-/

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mikeymike wrote:

Let's not forget that there is a still doubt as to wether or not Escom actually purchaced the rights to the AmigaOS IP, and if subsequent owners of the brand name actually have the right to use it...

But who's going to take them (or anyone else for that matter) up on it if they didn't manage to purchase the rights?

Exactly, the answer is "Who cares?", the AmigaOS IP is worth just a tiny bit more than the GEM IP...

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itix wrote:
Let me ask:

Why Hyperion was spreading AmigaOS beta with false copyright information?

Hyperion knew AmigaOS was sold for KMOS but copyright information in AmigaOS beta has been incorrect over a year.

Yes, but slightly more interesting is the rubbish that Fleecy has been spewing for the past year...

His "team are working on OS4"... why would they work on a product that have nothing to do with?

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Morley wrote:
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Well, development is always funny, as someone else stated on this forum, we just need a murder to make a good movie :lol:

But I just can't see why A.Inc. has refused to make OS4 run on Pegasos...more sales=more money in the real world. IMHO it's not much difference between the Pegasos and the AOne, they share the same northbridge, or? AFAIK it's just a matter of having the right firmware on the Pegasos boad. But I'm on thin ice when it comes to Pegasos specs. I thought it was build after "zico"-specifications?

The problem is that Eyetech went for U-Boot firmware, and Hyperion followed.

Persoanally I would have gone for Opern Firmware, but then I'm not trying to give people a reason to buy a very expensive motherboard.

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amiga ROXX and so does os4!

That may be so, but what about Amiga Inc.?

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also that said i never was a big fan of amiga.inc itself

That's a u-turn and a half!! :-D

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restore2003 wrote:
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Forget about Amiga Inc!!! They sold the only thing thats worth having, now we should be talking about KMOS  :-)

Hey, you are looking at Amiga Inc.'s biggest critic! I'm just finding it really funny how all the Amiga Inc. appologists are jumping ship now that OS4 seems to be nothing to do with them (The best thing that could happen to the OS4 project).

Can't we finally kill Amiga Inc. now?

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lempkee wrote:
bloodline:i doubt i have ever said i like a.inc.

anyway my poiint is..

if the product produced is great do you use it ? or is all of the decsision up to who is leading the company?

i hate windows because its crap , i dont like ms either.

i hate macos but i dont know much about the guys in charge there.

i hate bbrv but mos is quite ok for an clone os.

i hated commodore's top people in the last years of cbm...

Why don't you share with me the pleasure of saying "Amiga inc. is a worthless 2 bit company run by a truck driver and a technopath, who wasted all the Time and Money that could have been spent on AmigaOS"?

I admire your dedication to the Amgia platform, or rather the "Dead Amiga Clasic" platform to use the useless Amiga Inc. term. But I really have to say that WinXP is not as bad as you seem to think :-o I don't like it but my hatered is an illogical prejudice born of my Amiga Past :-)