Amiga, Inc. has terminated the contract with Hyperion and Eyetech on 20th December, and has sued Hyperion for copyright infringement on 26th April. Discussion about this trademark suit can be read on AmigaWorld; maybe the community can clear up what is going on here, because I lost track long ago. Update: A detailed description [.pdf] of the suit has appeared. Amiga Inc. is accusing Hyperion of trademark infringement, but also of breach of the agreement the companies signed among one another. According to Amiga Inc., the agreement said that Hyperion would exercise its 'best efforts' to release AmigaOS 4 by March 1st, 2002. They obviously failed that date (AOS4 was released 24th December 2006), and hence Amiga Inc. says the contract was broken. Exhibits included.
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Member since:2005-07-06
>Actually it's not. Hyperion has confirmed that it is not on a number of occaisions.
That's not entirely entirely the case either, I believe. Hyperion had access to the 3.1 sources, although it's true that a large amount was rewritten (notably the kernel, ExecSG, and AmigaDOS, which was previously written in legacy BCPL.) What Hyperion didn't have access to were the sources for OS3.5, OS3.9, and (as far as I recollect) ARexx.
Member since:2006-05-14
Exactly. Some parts needed to be rewritten from scratch, such as Exec (the heart of the OS), which needed to be adapted to the PowerPC processor and more flexible hardware handling. Numerous parts were added to handle new hardware and software environment such as USB, IDE/SATA devices, etc. And many parts are bugfixed and/or developed further from the 3.1 sources such as DOS.library, Graphics.library, etc.
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2006-03-24
Actually it's not. Hyperion has confirmed that it is not on a number of occaisions.