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Poster | Thread | jiyong
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Re: First round goes to Hyperion Posted on 14-Jun-2007 21:24:52
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42. As another example, Hyperion's rights under 2.01 of the Agreement included the right to retain all revenues from the distribution of OS 4.0. In 2001 and 2002 Amiga Washington breached Hyperion's rights by engaging in illicit discount voucher schemes aimed at future end-consumers of OS. 4.0. Specifically, Amiga Washington issued $100 "Amiga Party Pack" and $50 "I am Amiga" vouchers designed to induce consumers to pay Amiga Washington $100 or $50 in anticipation of the release of OS 4.0. Amiga Washington represented that in exchange for these vouchers it would either grant a discount or provide free copies of software, e.g. OS 4.0, that it did not own. By Amiga Washington's own admisions, it raised at least $90,000 from consumers in this manner. |
Oh no (Lemming style)! Just when I hoped I would get my $50 back from Amiga, Hyperion is ruining it all.
But seriously, I only care about the $50 because I don't think Amiga kept its promise. I knew that probably I would never see it back, as it was also a way for me to show there were still people that put their money where their mouth is and let Amiga know there still was/is a market.
So far my expectation that Hyperion would get the upper hand seems true. I don't think Amiga can still pull a bunny out of a hat, so it would be nice to know how Hyperion sees the future of the OS and hardware partners.
The only severe weak point for Hyperion (that I see) is that they signed the bill of sale for OS4. You can't tell me that Hyperion didn't know about the possible insolvency issues at that time. Sure it's implicit and not as strong as an explicit statement, but I would say when you are a smart lawyer on the Amiga side, you could make it a big issue. |
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