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The other major point is about *If* Amiga Inc has actually granted the license. I personally wouldn't expect Bill McEwen to resurface, let alone license a product that would risk placing him right back in the courtroom.

Yes, this is a very interesting question:

On the one hand it seems highly suspicious that the Amiga name only gets "licensed" after Amiga Inc seems to have disappeared from the face of the internet (which also lends suspicion to AI being wound-down by their investors).

On the other hand, if Amiga Inc is being wound-down, then it makes sense for the investors to sell anything that Amiga Inc still has of value. Which may be little more than Teh Name. Although I find it unlikely that CommodoreUSA would be able to pay more for it than any number of other companies (who have more than 2 employees), so this still seems rather suspicious.

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T-J wrote: @WolfToTheMoon Quote: I think you need to reread some of the comments already posted... My conclusion from all of this that there is a bigger chance that earth stops spinning tonight ar 2:41 am than Hyperion having any chance to contest this agreement(between C= and amiga). And mine is that selling Amiga branded machines with AROS constitutes a clear breach of the settlement between Hyperion and Amiga Inc. Neither of us are any less biased than the other, though, and neither has access to any more information. So let's just wait and see. @ChrisH Its definitely not simple, but the text of the settlement seems to include releasing (either on its own or through licensees) an Amiga branded computer running an OS substantially similar to The Software as one of the things Amiga Inc is forbidden to do. As I read it, licensing a 'Commodore-Amiga' running just Ubuntu or Windows would be something Hyperion wouldn't be able to do anything about. But having an 'Amiga-like' in there too is precisely the sort of thing they sought to prevent when they negotiated that part of the Settlement.

Only in the context of "to the extent that such Software Architecture is protectable under the copyright laws of the United States"(1).

Again, does AROS breach AmigaOS's protectable copyright?

1. http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/washington/wawdce/2:2007cv00631/143245/147/1.pdf Page 28/46 Part B

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