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Re: A statement concerning the distribution situation of Ami
« on: April 03, 2002, 04:29:49 AM »
Whichever way you look at it, having read the posting Bernie made, you cannot lay the blame on Amiga Inc for defending their intelluctual property rights. It would seem that from Bernie's statement that he was under the impression the distribution of Amithalon/Amiga OS XL was cleared with AI (a point he repeats many times), and that after receiving the email from AI, he had clarified with H+P that this was indeed not the case. As such he asked for distribution of Amithalon to cease, which so far has been ignored. Therefore, the problem lies with H+P and not AI.

To start making it into an Aminthalon vs OS4 war is silly, just as some of the comments like "I won't be spending a cent on blah blah blah". Those people making those comments obviously didn't pay too much attention to what Bernie said. It is simply an intelluctual property problem, and once resolved, legal sale of Amithalon/AmigaOS XL would resume.
 

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Re: A statement concerning the distribution situation of Ami
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2002, 07:58:43 AM »
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It might not be that simple. By ingoring Bernie's request that they should cease distribution of AmigaOS XL, H&P are in breach of the contract they signed with him. Bernie may want to think long and hard before he agrees to let H&P resume distribution of his product. It's not like they've done a sterling job of it after all.


It is true that the continued sale is illegal, and that the matter may take some time to resolve, but once the IP problem has been sorted, nothing stops Bernie seeking a different retailer for his product, seeing as he is having big issues with H+P, who (as you said) clearly are ignoring the contract they made with him. Things like this don't serve to give them a good public image all, and will undoubtedly lead to their having reduced software sales and/or demise.