SlimJim asked,
Does anyone have an objective clue as to the status of the court proceedings, rather than just guessing? Must there not be some way of finding out if court proceedings are concluded or not, even if the content of the negotiations are not disclosed? Perhaps Genesi "won" the first round, but AInc is appealing, and that's the cause for the different
point of view?
Good question. Unfortunately, as noted time and time again, the Washington court system is mired in... suck, no matter who's side you're on. See:
http://www.metrokc.gov/kcscc/ecr/ecrsum.html I think that's the right venue for some of this, anyway.
http://www.courts.wa.gov/http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/http://www.legalwa.org/ seems the place to turn if/when a decision is made at the Appellate or Supreme level.
http://prd.dor.wa.gov/prd_getinfo.asp?traid=601983734 might be of interest. (That's the address of the shuttered offices.)
It would be nice indeed to have any clue at all what's going on. Even SCO had the courtesy to post the text of their complaint.
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Edit: Oh, and as far as I can tell, this isn't about "what Genesi can port," since, like them or not, I don't think they own AInc. or Hyperion at present, and probably shouldn't have access to sources to conduct their own port(s). Rather, it's that Genesi are representing a deal or settlement as final (with claims of DE and AmigaOS on PegasosPPC.com, if nothing else), while AInc. would (continue to) beg to differ.
What 'negotiations' have been going on behind the curtain, and/or what the courts have decided, seem to remain anyone's guess. A few official-looking things turned up a while back, but IIRC, that was just someone's lawyers getting sent back to square one on procedural grounds. (Anyone remember what that was, or do I have to go scrape ANN after I nap?)
DoubleEdit: Wow, okay, I missed the claim over the DE. Now, since the 'DE' barely exists in public form, I have no idea what that could consist of, but... more power to everyone. If it *is* just a set of components on top of Elate/Intent, it should certainly run atop any port of Intent/Elate (that is, after all, the point, right?), but copyright of the 'real' sources is obviously a legal matter to worry about. In turn, it's probably trivial to disassemble VP bytecode, but legally obtaining the bytecode for a 'product' that's mostly existed under tight license and NDA would be one hell of a trick. Why do I get the feeling Bolton weighs into this, somehow?
...Either that, someone's tracked down individual developers like Jarno (Ami2D) and made them offers they can't refuse, or they picked up a dusty copy of the 'SDK' out of a bargain bin somewhere. :roll:
