[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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AFUA visited Thendic-France : Comment 126 of 629 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Apr-2002 11:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 125 (Samface): >MorphOS was even announced as a next generation PPC AmigaOS
It was next-generation Amiga PPC OS.
>It's not about not allowing anyone making an Amiga product,
Who makes Amiga products?
>Amiga Inc paid $5 million for this IP, why wouldn't they want to protect that investment?
What exactly did they buy? Afaik it's doubtable they bought the OS, because Escom themselves
couldn't prove they actually owned it. The patent situation etc. is even more unclear.
>It's not like the MorphOS team never had the chance of either applying for a license to use
>that IP or even buy the rights for the IP themselves.
They are not using that IP, so why should they license it?
They had no chance to buy the rights, because they were not publicly for sale under Gateway.
Fleecy & Bill made a special deal.
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