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The offer of funding legal cases was already retracted, as a courtesy to Jens. I presumed the gesture would result in continuing a public negotiation for the sources, as was suggested. What in fact happened was that Jens ended the conversation with an ironic dismissal.
Look: A "free API" is not a step towards open source. It is just a free API. That is not progress towards the ideal outcome as you describe it; it is meaningless in terms of those ends. And if it isn't evil -- lets save some words for their actual degree -- then it is at least incredibly selfish: I don't think anyone in this entire community, save the monopolizing forces themselves, want this software to be proprietary or locked up with a couple of small, probably quite poorly funded companies. To put it another way: If "love" for the classic Amiga means maintaining control through this sort of means, then perhaps love is also not the right word to describe it.
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