Maybe I understood things wrong, but I had the impression that he ended up believing that Amiga Inc. were not the correct people to license OS/firmware from. Who is correct, dunno, wish I could remember where I saw that talk, but I may have seen it more as other people talking about what Jens may have said.
You're not imagining it. I've posted the quote numerous times.
From Jens Schoenfeld April, 2007 on AW:
Bill McEwen, who hasn't been able to give any proof of ownership of the classic Amiga OS in the past 20 months, who wanted to send me contracts "by the end of the week" (that was in february),
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