Amiga Inc answers your questions (updated)

[humppa]

@AmigaHeretic

but the predictions still come that 4, 5, and 6, are just around the corner. Laughable.

Why laughable?
OS 5.0 has already been released.  :lol:

[humppa]

If OS5 is just TAO's extended JavaVM, further extended, I'm buying a peg. I'm not even kidding.

Wow, is this a threat?   :lol:

[humppa]

Could it be that Troika will sell an AmigaOS4.0 capable machine, without license, and that's what's trudging through the courts?

They would need to bundle their HW with AOS 4.0 for which they have to pay royalties to Amiga Inc.
So it would involve both Troika and Hyperion.
Very unlikely to have a lawsuit only for the "intention" to do something.

[humppa]

@Ikir

I think Amiga should employ Hyperion for their OS division.

Why would they want to do that? In order to activate the buy-back clause, they need to supply a substantially new version no later than 6 months after the release of OS 4.0.
If Hyperion would be contracted, they could just sit on their as*es and do nothing so that the ownership of AmigaOS won't be transferred to Amiga Inc.
Further to this, OS5 is planned for multiple CPU platforms, but Hyperion is allergic to anything other than PPC.

[humppa]

I think they are using this forum for some reason. Maybe a warning to Hyperion?

More likely a public mudslinging. So let's wait how the Frieden's react to this during the IRC session.
I think there will be many *cough* "interesting" questions you could ask them.
However, not sure if they would like to respond to all of them.

[humppa]

It's funny so see this comment and this comment (although it was probably only joking) before the questions had been answered.

Rogue answered

this to the question about OS 5.0: An eight letter word (bullsh*t). It can't get any clearer that there is something that really went wrong between Amiga Inc. and Hyperion.