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Many patents have expired and a German court has already ruled that no exclusive rights to the OS went out of Commodore.

Any links to such announcements? I don't remember hearing this before, and am interested inlearning more. I'm curious as to what Escom actually paid for then, when they seemed to think they purchased that stuff.

I just don't see what reason AI has to bring lawsuit against you guys at this point. They don't seem to even want to sell OS4. They waddle around on their (IMHO) lame-duck DE/anywhere product for mobile Windows. You've seperated yourself from MorphOS product. Other than your previous lawsuit against AI regarding DE on Pegasos (as I remember the judge gave you DE but not OS4), I can't imagine what anything AI does has anything to do with what you guys do, or why any such overlap would be worthy of starting legal action against you. We the people of course do not know a lot of things, as it should be, but my imagination is coming up with nothing that AI would want from Genesi at this point. (I do not intend to say that Genesi has nothing worth wanting in general, seems you guys make very nice hardware, just that I don't see anything Genesi has that fits with what we think we know about AI's business plan) I also can't imagine DE/Anywhere being critical or even useful to the success of Pegasos/Efika products, so I don't see that if AI is holding back on porting DE is going to affect anything. I don't know if the rumored 30 day response scheme that claimed to get AI out of the DE judgement is real or if it would hold up in court or not, regardless I just can't imagine it being a critical part of your business. So for both directions, I don't have any acceptable idea as to why Amiga Inc. or their lawyers are so important to Genesi moving forward these days.

Perhaps you'll say more about this in the Q&A, or perhaps I'll have to buy Total Amiga to understand things, or perhaps we'll all be left in the dark, forever wondering what exactly happened there. (A plausible and acceptable possibility, as not all business details should be public knowledge, especially if companies involved like AI and Genesi are not publicly traded) I'm curious to see if anyone jumps into obsession over this and posts everythign that happens, as someone did for the old court case.

It's just one of those things that since we don't know what you know, it makes that bit of comment appear out of place.

Last edited by billt on 28-Aug-2006 at 07:03 PM.

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I hope that we can get the answer to the questions. At least, the questions coming from AmigaWorld.

Thank you.

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