Its over. Hyperion won!

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They did not win, they settled with Amiga Inc with a new agreement.  Thanks to a Moo linking to a  /. article about the settlement, I see that Haynie posted his thoughts: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1409045&cid=29796239

Good read, if not a disparaging one. I disagree about AmigaOS being too far behind to be relevant though. I thought that was very shortsighted of him. We all know what's possible when you combine talent, money and other incentives. Great strides can be and are often literally created over night in this industry. When not, that's what "service packs" are for. lol

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I really don't understand why everyone thinks hyperion are/will be the saviours of AmigaOS, because they are clearly not.

Because we want and "need" to cling to some hope  :-)

EDIT:  By the way I think MorphOS has the same problems in sticking with expensive old and hard to come by hardware that is dead as a desktop platform

Agreed and it's definitely keeping this notion of an "AmigaOS" as niche and tiny as possible. Perhaps they fear becoming more successful? lol