Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc References: <18000306173144634864@BIRDLAND.es.bawue.de> From: "Olaf Barthel" Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 10:24:28 +0100 X-NewsReader: IntuiNews 1.3a (7.9.95) Subject: Re: Amiga-Patents... Message-ID: <13216496@sourcery.han.de> Lines: 22 Path: 195.95.96.2!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!baghira.han.de!sourcery.han.de!not-for-mail In Article <18000306173144634864@BIRDLAND.es.bawue.de>, Steffen Haeuser wrote: > Hi! > > For those who heard of that "sale of Amiga Patents" from Rightime Electronics > to Lotus Pacific... Gateway 2000 gave a not out, according to which this > "sale" would not have been legal. The exact note is following... > [..] On the subject of "not quite legal": Amiga International has just started to stamp out illegal sale of AmigaOS 3.1 by means of a "standardized" cover plate and a serial number. There are only two bits missing: a) a natty hologram, b) a seal proclaiming "Guaranteed to be at least four years old". a) is probably missing because the hologram would be more expensive than the disks and b) is probably missing because nobody at Amiga International has noticed yet how old their products and how badly they need to see updating rather than "licensing". Oh, by the way: has anybody noticed that Amiga International has resurrected the Boing! ball? I wonder whether *this* is legal. -- Home: Olaf Barthel, Brabeckstrasse 35, D-30559 Hannover Net: olsen@sourcery.han.de