I have shortly read the paragraphs regarding the existing community and it is clear that they have not invested anything and will not ("waste of money"). Aros would be the only interesting for them (X86) but they are not allowed to do (AmigaInc/Hyperion) and because of that they will never invest just one cent in it. All 68k projects are interesting but they will not invest, PPC is not interesting and they would never invest in a port of AOS or MorphOS and besides they want to control the OS. Therefore all closed source OSs are not interesting. So we know what we all can expect of them. Nothing. What I do not understand why they keep on trying to get on amigasites in the news if they are not interested in the community.
"Commodore USA, LLC." can not because that would and could violate the ruling of a U.S. Judge which nevertheless could be appealed by measures of statutory reasons BUT that is problematic because it was a settlement and ruling of a settlement and became contractual.
However, Barry can personally invest legally as an LLC. is by statutes a sepaerate "person" by statutes fro Barry. It is a seperate entity. Now, "person" in laws have been standardly stated in virtually all federal and states, as any "natural person", corporation, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, etc. Natural person has a specific meaning.
Barry may personally donate but that is not about Commodore USA, LLC. That is seperate matters. Keep that in mind. Violating court judgement when knowing the ramifications can be quite serious.
Those of you less then savory type might know what contempt of court ramifications are. Think bigger fines and federal prison in this case. Not worth it.
The legal contestment is that the conditions of ruling must be enforceable and rational. Does the ruling meet the rational basis review test. Did it violate Amiga's ownership rights to begin with and Amiga's right as copyright holder to terminate a contract. So to the equitable capacity of hyperion, it probably isn't an issue of whether or not, Commodore USA / Amiga Inc. Terminate hyperion license and equitable revenue of Amiga OS. The problem at some point is that it become systemically moot.
Hyperion only has license of a copyright not a patent. No copyright protection over Intuition and user interface concept. Amiga copyright only extends to software code and art but does not cover user interfaces which requires patenting. That patent expired. It is public domain and because of that, Hyperion has no standing on patent. The standing of case is merely Hyperions code contribution between 3.1 to 4.1. Hyperion's framework of code is largely PPC matters and if all PPC code which is C/C++ source or PPC assembly would be moot to different computing platform.
Precedence of judicial rulings on threshold of "__________-like" in software must be kept. For license and matters to apply, it must deemed work derivative to which Hyperion has ultimate right over. Then what is the point.
I can certainly use a UI feel that follows expired patent and license Commodore and because it is completely different code base, hyperion wouldn't have a copyright ground because there is no statutory authority to copyright laws for protecting user interface mechanics and no code from 68k or any Amiga or Hyperion source ever used. I can can put it in Java and hard compile it to binary x86. In turn, they have no equitable power over the outcome.
The precence of gary kildall vs. microsoft (the cp/m and MS-dos case must be bared in mind)
A style of feel of a user interface and the mechanics of that of an invented software is a patent thing. It expired and I have the patent file. In the end, it doesn't matter. That is yester-decades ago.
The problem with so many of you is you are demanding CommodoreUSA to fulfill Escom's bull**** and trying to start from 1993 tech. Guess what, motorola has stopped major advancement in the 68k processor. The fastest one is the 68k coldfire and some under the dragonball name from Motorola/Freescale. It is dated and slow. 266 MHz? Um... Well overclock... 300 Mhz.
My bone to pick with the nut jobs on this forum is in nearly 20 years since the last Amiga model was introduced, would you want an Amiga for your day to day regular mainstream computer that compares with your actual paid job or even the kind of job you had got your original Amiga. How many of you got the Amiga 4000 and other power house for movie and other professional graphics work. Would that Natami or other Amiga clones even meet the scrutiny and power and capability that your work place would need today. Would it meet the needs of George Lucas and others. Lets get serious. Amiga was the graphic minicomputer workstation for the masses that can sit on your desk. That kind of professional stature and ability is exactly the kind of stuff Amiga was remembered for. A modern Amiga line must model as a premier of quality graphics with strong grahic facilities. Amiga models with wacoms and various professional graphic software suites for the sectors in professional graphics like DTP, movie & TV CGI, CAD/Arch/engineering, etc.
This would re-signify it as a serious system for such.
Barry was very much in place where it really was used and knows first hand what Amiga was about for much of Amiga history beyond the video games which was captured in the Amiga 500 more then anything. The beefier Amigas were more seriously used. They weren't toys That you just dicked around with. Of course, a majority of you didn't have a 4000 or 4000T until they were surplused off or you finally got a job working for a cgi company that upgraded to SGI O2 and later models and pentium MMX PCs and just said taken em, dump em, whatever and you took em home.
Some was after sever passing around. Barry was a 1st gen user not 2nd gen. He was old enough to know more of what it was about as an adult vs. a child with fantacized imagery of how things were or a young teenager in high school breaking the law in piracy, hacking, cracking and what not along with cyber-"punk" theme demo culture with techno and other late 80s and early 90s metal. Many of you are late 30s, early 40s. Why haven't some of you guys made it big as big leading guys instead of falling out of the big time stuff. I think those issues lie with yourself not with the computer.
Some of you have problems and the computer became a security blanket. That can be bad. If you can enjoy the commodore and amiga but not need it then you are good. If your life is too attached... That kind of fanaticism is a little kinky and wrong for your own sake. Ie. Tne Amiga computer wasn't meant to be our actual girlfriend. ( poke and jab joke but to make the bottom line point )
As to a modern computer product, it must be modern. The macs today are nothing like the old mac by hardware or its actual OS.
