Hyperion trying to lay claim to the Amiga name?

[dammy]

If what they claim is true, I wouldn't call it stealing. It is impressive document and if all goes well for Hyperion, we might even be able to buy OS4 someday.

No chance in Hell will that happen.  Before that impossible solution would occure, the courts throw it back to WA State courts.  WA State would then sell off the IP to pay existing creditors to settle all AI WA's debts.  

The tatic Hyperion is using is to annoy AI to the maximum by forcing them to go to great lengths (and cost huge amount of attorney fees) to prove they do own the IP.  I think that is what Hyperion is trying to do, bleed AI as much as possible and force a new contract.  It is their ONLY option afterall.

Of course, this opens the door for AI to do the same with Hyperion in attempt to bleed them dry be demanding documentation and other things.

Dammy

[dammy]

The contract grants Hyperion and Eyetech an “exclusive, perpetual, world-wide and royalty free
right and license” to OS4 and the Amig OS trademark in the event of Amiga, Inc. Washington's insolvency.

Problem is, that will not stand in the US Courts.  You can not sheild that type of IP from creditors.  So either it still apart of AI-WA (and the ball will be thrown back into the WA State venue and out of US Court's venue) or it's now AI-DE. Either way, Hyperion has no hope in getting the IP, legally or financially (Pennti would drain Hyperion in the courts with years worth of appeals and such).

Dammy

[dammy]

How about the lies about how impossible it would be to port OS4 to Macs?   Hyperion does have creditibility issues all their own.

Dammy

[dammy]

If one part of the contract is considered null and void, wouldn't it happen to all contract, meaning that Amiga Inc wouldn't have any access to Hyperion work?

As long as it was not based on AI's IP, Hyperion should keep the code but the buyback option was not completed.  That's the qustion right now, why did Hyperion give AI a reciept for the transaction?  That's for the jury to decide.

Dammy

[dammy]

Just support AROS. At least those guys (and girls - No chauvenists we!) care about what they're doing. They're not doing it, for money.

Actually, some of us ARE spending our money on AROS.  The Amiga Community gets the end product for free.  Folks want PPC, AROS is being ported to EFIKA and a bounty was just up (with a Dev mobo) for porting it to SAM440.  X86_64 native is also underway.  Who else is offering your favorate hardware with a friendly open source OS?

Dammy

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by jkirk on 2007/6/19 6:20:45

i don't remember any such statement. all i remember was the friedens telling us THEY would not port it without proper documentation.

You maybe right, they may have hinted they wouldn't, but reading some of these gems, it sure looks like they couldn't be bothered since it would be difficult.  Now it's running on a Mac?  Guess it wasn't that tough, for someone.

Dammy