by Rodney on 2003/5/29 10:41:30
If they were to buy it... Who would they buy it from? I was thinking Gateway? Im prolly wrong, but i though Amiga Inc were only licencing their rights to the name?
Who knows who owns it. It maybe one of their financial backers or even the primary owner, Net Ventures. IIRC, Peake did say they bought the OS from Gateway, but then again, that was an Amiga Employee speaking at the time, so YMMV.
I dont think BBRV could get AmigaOS, it belongs to Hyperion. Not Amiga Inc. But A inc can buy it from Hyperion according to their contract at a specified time.
Depends on which OS your talking about. OS/WB .x - 3.1 should be owned by either AI, AI's backers, or maybe GW. OS 3.5 and OS 3.9 is, more or less depending on what code was pirated for the final releases, owned by H&P. Hyperion owns their OS and have a license to call it OS4.
If I understand correctly, the AROS devs don't want AOS/WB source code. I can see their point, WB/AOS is old and outdated. AROS, OTOH, has a modern design that runs on different platforms. Now a BoingBall as apart of AROS' logo, OTOH, would be kinda nifty to see, IMO.
Dammy
