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>So…who exactly do you buy from, then?

Nobody.

>Seems to cast Hyperion as the (relative?) villains and Cloanto as the (relative?) good guys

They're both spending all their cash fighting each other. I support neither.

>but it seems if you want a version of AmigaOS released this century, that means Hyperion.

Support AROS. Copy AmigaOS, don't support it. That is the conclusion I arrived to.

This is one way of many possible: https://www.power2people.org/projects/overview/