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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    >> There is no claim that Hyperion Entertainment has any supposed exclusive rights
    >> to distribute AmigaOS as part of software bundles. [...] Examples of software
    >> bundles would be the various Amiga Forever editions that have been sold for years
    >> and contain versions of AmigaOS. Furthermore, if the forementioned statement
    >> regarding exclusive rights were to be accurate, any offering that combines AmigaOS
    >> with another virtual (non-hardware) element, which could be as simple as a
    >> "checkmark" wallpaper, would not be affected...

    > That IS a very good point. And if proven correct, it negates Cloanto's right to distribute ROMs.

    Huh? How do you arrive at this idea from the quoted conclusion that Hyperion's license to bundle AmigaOS with other software might not be exclusive? How would this negate Cloanto's "right to distribute ROMs"?

    > It also could be used as an argument excusing that messy situation of Hyperion's
    > bundling of Workbench 1.3 with OS4.

    That's not how I read it.

    > in a choice between him and the Bill Buck/Genesi/MorphOS side...I'd always favor team blue

    "Bill Buck/Genesi/MorphOS side" is so last decade :-P
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