If the makers of Aladdin have lost interest in their product and/or think that it is no longer viable to sell and support it, why didn't they already release the sources to the public?
Asking for a huge lump of money for the source code of an end-of-line old program is plainly ridiculous! More so when the product has been on sale for years and years, surely already earning it's owners a quite a few bucks. This is simply pure, unashamed greed!
Besides, from a technical point of view, why waste so much money for the source code without knowing what you're paying for? Maybe the sources are an utter mess, and a complete re-write is the only way forward, as was the case with the Netscape browser.
To me this effort to buy out Aladdin sounds naive and I wouldn't waste my hard earned bucks to line the pockets of this greedy software house. After all, why should we, Amiga owners, reward a company for abandoning the Amiga market?
I'm sure the highly talented Amiga developers will port newer, and better Open Source 3D programs to our beloved platfrom as soon as OS4 is released.
