CLS2086 wrote:
An an other interesting point :-P
Was is AmigaOne ?
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The MicroA1 and SE/XE are motherboard. They are not the AmigaOne, and any computer built with these motherboards would not be an AmigaOne.
Yeah. That doesn't make much sense at all. The motherboards were sold as AmigaOnes. There was no such thing as a standard AmigaOne computer system while they were on sale. Any dealer will testify to this. Hell, I'll testify to it.
@ all
Read the legal brief that Piru linked before continuing.
The facts as I see them:
-Hyperion screwed up big time by agreeing to do OS4 for a piddly $25000. (More of an opinion, actually)
-They did miss the March 2002 deadline by a longshot.
-There's a lot of muck surrounding the Developer Pre-Release (2004) vs. Final Update (Dec 2006). I read the Final Update as essentially being Update 5 to the Pre-Release, not formal launch of the OS. Amiga thinks otherwise and believes that such an action violated the agreement. There's no other mention of the other Pre-Release updates in the brief, and introducing them would probably help Hyperion's defense.
-The main thing to consider is that nothing is actually on sale and nothing actually has been on sale for years. Yes, Hyperion and ACube are advertising OS4 (possibly in violation of the agreement) for not-previously-agreed-upon platforms, but the fact that I can't right this second go out and buy any of this (thus cutting into Amiga's sales) means, to me, that Amiga's case is weak.
This whole thing is absurd - the financial value of the properties involved is absolutely miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Just pay Hyperion what they're asking and be done with it. Hell, I'd bet the community would pony up the money to do so if it meant getting a voice as an investor and getting the product out the door.
