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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: jarroyo on January 06, 2008, 10:43:07 PM
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Maybe OS5 is Tao's IP. Did'nt the Tao Group get delisted. If the 12 million they had for the Kent Arena was real money, then maybe they just bought out the Tao Group IP?
I'll keep dreaming....... :lol:
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jarroyo wrote:
Maybe OS5 is Tao's IP. Did'nt the Tao Group get delisted. If the 12 million they had for the Kent Arena was real money, then maybe they just bought out the Tao Group IP?
I'll keep dreaming....... :lol:
Its either that, or something else, but similar.
Whats more likely is that its the usual smoke and mirrors we've come to expect.
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Agafaster wrote:
jarroyo wrote:
Maybe OS5 is Tao's IP. Did'nt the Tao Group get delisted. If the 12 million they had for the Kent Arena was real money, then maybe they just bought out the Tao Group IP?
I'll keep dreaming....... :lol:
Its either that, or something else, but similar.
Whats more likely is that its the usual smoke and mirrors we've come to expect.
Tao's Intent was purchased by Cross Atlantic Capital Partners LLC. I would also note, many other Intent partners have switched to Googles Android.
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Cross Atlantic owns the tech, but a "SPV" special purpose vehicle, named Replevix LLC was formed to handle the licensing.
I am not 100% sure, but was there not some special arrangement where Amiga Inc reserved some rights even if Taos would seize to exists?
Their Intent / Elate RTOS is pretty cool stuff. The AmiAnywhere was just striped down to a player and nothing else.
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News about Replevix:
Several former customers of Tao Group claimed that they can use Intent without paying royalty to Replevix.
HTC, a giant mobile phome vendor in China is sued by Replevix.
From Bloomberg:
"High Tech Computer Corp., the world's largest maker of phones using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, was sued by a Pennsylvania company over claims it infringed a patent for mobile computer programs.
Replevix, based in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, got worldwide rights in July to use the technology, which was developed by Tao Group Ltd. High Tech is using the software in mobile phones and PDAs sold in T-Mobile and AT&T stores in Philadelphia, Replevix said in a Nov. 2 complaint in Philadelphia federal court.
"Replevix has not consented to or permitted in any way to enabling defendant to embed the Intent software in HTC devices without paying for this," Replevix said in the complaint.
High Tech has enough provisions in case it loses the lawsuit, Chief Financial Officer Cheng Hui-Ming said by telephone from Taiwan.
High Tech agreed in May to pay more than US$3.5 million for use of the invention, a method of loading computer games on mobile phones without comprising memory, according to the complaint. In July, Replevix purchased all assets of U.K.-based Tao, including contracts for US$3 million. Replevix later obtained a license to use Tao's intellectual property from another company that had purchased those rights.
High Tech, based in Taiwan, has admitted selling devices with the patented technology and claims to have no commercial contract with Replevix, the complaint said. Replevix is seeking unspecified damages and an order barring the sale of the devices.
High Tech makes handsets for clients and under its own name. The company said Oct. 30 that fourth-quarter revenue will climb 20 percent from a year earlier on rising sales of its branded handsets. High Tech reported NT$28.45 billion in fourth-quarter sales last year.
The case is Replevix LLC v. High Tech Computer Corp., 07- 4265, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania"
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Maybe OS5 is Tao's IP.
More then likely its .NET or Mono.
Dammy
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dammy wrote:
Maybe OS5 is Tao's IP.
More then likely its .NET or Mono.
Dammy
...and thats no way to build an OS.
a web page, yes. OS ? no.
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dammy wrote:
Maybe OS5 is Tao's IP.
More then likely its .NET or Mono.
Dammy
:-o Not even AInc. would do this...About time they showed us all OS5 in full, with web pages and stuff. Aren't AInc. supposed to be "world leaders in multimedia technology" ? I would have thought some bloody web pages about OS5 would be forthcomming by now, at least it would clear up this sort of speculation. :roll:
We wait and see...........................again.