> [...] the same people who tried to keep it out of the hands of the rest of the Amiga
> community by constantly offering Greg Perry a contract they had no intention of meeting.
> Lucky for us, Perry was a better man and just opened the source so we could all have it.

To put that into perspective, he gave the source code for the payment of 4148 USD at a point in time when earlier offers/contracts were nullified and no other serious offers were in place or in sight.