> Trevor paid a lot of money up front to Varisys to design the X1000.
> Money that didn't even start to come back for a really long time.

It hasn't so far if we are to believe Trevor, and it's not even supposed to.

> he ate the increase in cpu costs.

...jointly with AmigaKit, according to him.

> Hyperion's subcontractors, the Friedens, would now appear to own some parts of OS4.

ExecSG has been the Frieden's property starting with the first line of code in 2001 as was tested in court in declaratory action.