[AndrejXY]

What lawsuits are you talking about?

Cloanto never sued anyone, other than having been dragged in the case of lawyer-owned Hyperion Entertainment. Hyperion is owned by a litigator who is well known for his tactics in his home country of Belgium. When Hyperion failed to deliver on their 2001 Amiga OS outsourced development contract, they did what lawyers do best: they sued Amiga. They sued Amiga once in 2007, and they sued Amiga again in 2018 (case number 2:2018cv00381 filed March 13, 2018). This was completely unprovoked, and was largely seen as an attempt to trigger a "catch all" clause in the 2009 settlement with Amiga. Hyperion was hoping for Amiga to default. Instead, Cloanto helped them, as they always did.

If you want to educate yourselved on the Hyperion vs. Amiga case, "Amiga Documents" is as good as it gets:

https://twitter.com/amigadocuments

https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/

[snvzz]

I will respect Cloanto when they respect AmigaOS by publishing the source code under an Open Source license.

It is a shame that they are still bickering about this historical piece of software, not allowing the community to move on.

Meantime, our Atari friends are enjoying emuTOS + MiNT.

[AndrejXY]

You are blaming the wrong people.

Amiga wanted (wants) to make an open source branch. Cloanto said the same on multiple occasions. I know people who saw settlement drafts with Hyperion, the provision was there. Ask the 3.1.4 developers in the forums.

Hyperion lawyer-owner Ben Hermans, who is an "experienced IT litigator" is the one who keeps blocking it, like he keeps blocking the 2019 acquisition and the transfer of all assets into Amiga Corporation. He even sued his own managing director, Timothy DeGroote, to stop the settlement with the Amiga parties (Amiga/Itec/Amino/Cloanto).

[snvzz]

Cloanto is no saint[0]. From where I stand, both sides are trash.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064176

[bogantech]

Thanks for letting me know, I stand corrected