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"I didn't stand up when I should have. I am standing up now."

(Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2 E2, Ad Astra per Aspera)

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@eldeestephens I am Eldee Stephens! 🤣

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Today is Amiga Liberation Day.

Years of illegality and hatred are finally over. After losing its war against Amiga at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Hyperion settled today. They will cease all 68K activities by 2027 as Amiga moves forward.

20 x (26+7+17) = (Amiga) 1000 🦅🚀

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@astrocities This looks like a genuinely new project. The previous one David Pleasance was holding appears to have been mostly a rebrand. Hope this one is fully legit too (proper licensing for the software they're including).

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After 9 years of waiting, the future we were promised is finally here... New Commodore's first legit product will be a phone. Or will it? 👀

https://t.co/1WsQvnKdD5

https://t.co/VWM9K67c89

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@CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @EverythingC64 @C64Reposts So... did they actually license the C64 ROMs, or are we doing full Hollywood "release first, lawyers later"?

I'd love an Amiga product, but not if it means straight-up piracy.

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@tschak @ModernVintageG Because of the millionaire and his lawyer friend who engaged in two rounds of lawsuits against them? Otherwise, not sure what you mean. At least Amiga has some IP, while New Commodore has almost none (other than the two "C=" and "Commodore" marks).

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@ModernVintageG They still haven't sorted out the licenses for Gideon's hardware, and now this?

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@CommodoreBlog Peak delusional + fake. They should sort out the missing C64 Ultimate licenses instead of whatever this is 😭

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Ben Hermans has lost his case against Ben Hermans BV and his former fellow shareholders at Hyperion Entertainment. He now has three months to file an appeal with the Court of Cassation.

https://t.co/Iva2C5zQGB

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Oh no, it's six years later, and Hyperion Entertainment's "new" (old) management fired him again!

"Steven Solie will no longer be part of the OS4 development team."

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Did Hyperion just fire unpaid OS 4 development lead Steven Solie for talking to Cloanto?

Beware that thou forget not: Hyperion's largest shareholder is lawyer Ben Hermans, who has also been providing legal services to Hyperion partner Individual Computers, all attacking Cloanto.

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@RaLassen Nor is Hyperion. And Cloanto would not even want to be involved, they just want out (Hyperion wouldn't allow them). But the developers are free. Would they rather work on an official project, or be accused of "playing" with stolen source code (entrusted to Hyperion for OS4 only)?

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Amiga/Cloanto Triumph in Ninth Circuit Appeal. In a unanimous decision, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled to separate the rights established under the 2009 Settlement Agreement from intellectual property rights.

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Landmark victory in US federal appeal by @Cloanto and @AmigaCorp makes waves in the legal world

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Under their "nothing to lose" mentality, Hyperion's new/old management flaunted their disregard for the law. Just this April they proudly declared in their mailing list, "We also received a cease & desist letter but we are getting used to that by now." It's time for consequences.

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@RaLassen It's a wakeup call. I think it will lead Hyperion to finally settle. But since Hyperion was not a viable business to begin with (huge debt, implausible assets), they will probably head to bankruptcy. AmigaOS 3 and 4 will be fine. Nobody needed Hyperion.

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These IP rights are stronger than those granted in the 2009 Settlement Agreement, as the Amiga/Cloanto parties are no longer bound by its non-aggression clauses or limited to jurisdiction in Washington, USA.

https://t.co/GRd2LepsWD

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This significant legal win enables the new Amiga parties to pursue action against Hyperion and its co-conspirators for copyright and trademark infringement. Will it be enough to compel Hyperion Entertainment back to the negotiation table it chose to abandon?

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Petrodollars and free lawyers aren't enough: the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied Hyperion Entertainment's Motion for Reconsideration, filed earlier this week.

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@NinjaCyborg Yes. Amiga/Cloanto parties won.

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A new anti-Amiga/Cloanto lawsuit funded by Robert Trevor Dickinson and by AmigaOS 3.2 developers "working for free"?

Via its PR czar Benny Damsgaard, Hyperion announced today that it filed a new lawsuit against the parties who asked Hyperion to file its overdue accounts.

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Hyperion are not and will never be "The creators of AmigaOS", as the email says in the signature. The lies and the lawsuits must stop.

For added perspective, read more about weapons lobbyist Benny Damsgaard:

https://t.co/tcPsU2iVEc

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Also blames Ben Hermans, knowing well that "new management" also was more than six months late in filing. We are looking forward to the analysis of the assets (between $0.5M and $1M, depending on the year and calculation) that Hyperion claims in order to avoid insolvency.

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