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May he rest in peace. The Register also posted an obituary today: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-ami...

A longer discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670238

> Haage & Partner 'Amiga Forever' lineage You are confusing one with the other. Haage & Partner did "3.5" and "3.9". Those are no longer distributed, as the contracts with both Ami…

This update wasn't really "unexpected", as there have been patches and updates for AmigaOS 3.x from various sources (not just Hyperion Entertainment) every few years. Hyperion is o…

Nice! On your site it says "The calendar data can come from one or more calendar providers". Is the connection direct (e.g. data flows from Google to epaper calendar), or via the a…

You are right in that this has nothing to do with trademarks. Copyright assignments can be researched on this US Government site (here a sample output for "Cloanto"): https://cocat…

Where did Cloanto ever refer to this as "encryption"? It is a simple XOR, and it is open source. They always said they were "encoded" because Amiga International or Gateway asked t…

I am afraid you are wrong on two points: there was indeed a license agreement with every Amiga sold (whether enforceable or not, I don't know), but more importantly there were no r…

"Who knows?" Playing the FUD game? Acer never owned anything Amiga. The copyrights and trademarks can easily be looked up, while the patents expired before Acer even bought Gateway…

You mean it would be legal to copy Windows 11 from one PC, and put the copy on a barebone system? :-D

You mean OS/2? :-)

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 Hype…

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 …

Curious about hardware differences across markets. I bought my previous gen 2 watch in Japan, so it came with the Suica feature (which my phone lacks). Will they again limit this f…

I liked this one: REST API Design Rulebook, Designing Consistent RESTful Web Service Interfaces, by Mark Masse http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021575.do