@AmigaBlitter

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I don't know precisely for what the 25.000 $ was for.

That's ok, neither do the rest of us. Basically all we know is that monies were paid. AI now claims that those funds were applied to the balance of the buy-out/buy-in. Originally I thought Hyperion was saying it was applied to other balances. Neither side kept records well enough to concretely prove either way to me. What we do have is a lot of talk about "it was understood that"....(insert lawyer commet here). What I understand is that at best both sides aren't competent in IP contracts.

Plaz

Last edited by Plaz on 01-Feb-2008 at 01:34 AM.

@AmigaBlitter

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AmigaBlitter wrote: @Plaz I don't know precisely for what the 25.000 $ was for. The 25.000 $ was for the developing OS4 for the powerPC architecture maybe? If so, is this amount of money really ridiculous, isn't it? Or the 25,000 $ was the price for the buy back clause only? Still ridiculous for me evene in that case.

Well, it's not like you'd expect getting an exclusive royalty free license to develop, market, distribute and sell another company's product for free either. I think the reasoning was something along the lines of "as payment for the development, you (Hyperion) get to keep all profit from selling the finished product, the $25K is just a symbolic sum for if/when we (AInc) decide to take development back in house".

Last edited by samface on 02-Feb-2008 at 04:04 AM.
Last edited by samface on 02-Feb-2008 at 04:03 AM.

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