[News] REQUEST by Defendant Amiga Inc for a delay in any decisions | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-Nov-2003 01:47 GMT by Rich Woods | 115 comments View flat View list |
11/12/2003 REQUEST by Defendant Amiga Inc for a delay in any decisions. (RS, ) (Entered: 11/18/2003)
Bill McEwen requests delay in the Thendic-Amiga trial (by personal letter on Amiga stationary with the Ravensdale PO Box address) - pro se.
We are in the process of locating new council (sic) for Amiga as well as finishing up our investment round so that we will be able to move foward with proper representation.
While I fully expect Amiga will have the funding and council (sic)
located before the requested extension......
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REQUEST by Defendant Amiga Inc for a delay in any decisions : Comment 72 of 115 | ANN.lu |
Posted by ghauber on 20-Nov-2003 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 51 (T_Bone): <<Nothing. Zero. Ziltch. The contract says Amiga may charge Genesi for the porting costs. We've been through this on Moobunny when the contract was leaked last year. Amiga are perfectly entitled by the contract to pass *all* porting costs to Genesi.>>
I'm sorry, I must have missed that? The closest I found to what you are saying is in section 5.1 of the contract:
"Thendic shall pay reasonable support fees on a mutually agreeable basis for work done beyond the scope of normal DE Operating System integration."
That doesn't sound like it covers all the porting costs to me. Maybe it's the wording, but to me it sounds like Amiga wears at least some of the cost of supplying the DE to Thendic.
The other thing that gets me is that in the motion for summary judgement, Thendic is going on about if Amiga does not have the resources to do the integration, then the source code should be handed over to Thendic. Now, if Thendic was paying the full cost of development, then resources at Amiga Inc for this particular task would not be a problem, would they? Something does not add up here.
<<(That's not even factoring BB offered over a quarter million dollars to Amiga to pay employees and keep them floating while all this is going on, on TOP of that!)>>
And under what conditions did BB offer that money? Surely it wasn't just a free gift with nothing expected in return?
<<And what CPU are a lot of these *big* customers using in their set top boxes and media devices? PPC? Hmm... Your making my case FOR me! Doing the PPC port would help them enter the market for even bigger customers. Synergy, and all that mumbo jumbo>>
No no no. The DE needs two things in order to work on a platform - the CII (CPU Isolation Interface) and the PII (Platform Isolation Interface). The CII is the PPC related bit, and, I believe, that was/is/would be done by Tao. The PII would have to be done by Amiga, and it would not be useful for any other PPC based OS (unless it was really similar to MorphOS). So no, porting the DE to the Pegasos would not help the way you think it would. |
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