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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > with the difference that it was Hyperion bringing up the clause

    Here you said it yourself: There's actually a *difference* between what the Wikipedia author claimed and what happened for real.

    > When it's said 'due with litigation issues with Amiga Inc.' It doesn't necessarily
    > means CUSA has them with Amiga Inc.

    I think it does, because of how the sentence continues:

    " [...] who as legal licensors of the closed source Amiga Workbench interface did not like the idea of AROS (being open source) being developed for Commodore USA's x86 range of computers, in particular the Amiga range."

    To me it's clear that the alleged "litigation issues with Amiga Inc." do refer to what's written in that second part of the sentence, i.e. that CUSA wanted to use AROS but weren't allowed to because Amiga Inc. denied it due to its open source status.
    If that's still not convincing for you, feel free to read some more of those crap statements from said Wikipedia author:

    "I was a little saddened by Amiga Inc's stance against CUSA in not allowing AROS to be used and ported over to a modern PC machine bearing the words 'Amiga' [...]. Perhaps if Amiga Inc. had taken a stake in the AROS project, it could have saved both companies. Amiga Inc. should learn to be more flexible I feel business-wise and not be so stubborn..."
    http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=670279

    "Amiga Inc. had other ideas about how AmigaOS should be used (only on Motorola CPUs and issued legal warnings to CUSA if they went Aros way) and as a result there was bad vibes received on both sides and why CUSA is now looking to Linux instead as a platform..."
    http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=670612

    "CUSA's [...] current agreement with Amiga Inc. says they cannot have an 'Amiga OS' like system on their machines as their base OS if it has not been endorsed by Amiga Inc. (which says it all really)."
    http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=686920

    > it may mean that Amiga Inc. has their own litigation issues, see
    > Hyperion vs Amiga Inc. case. Anyhow, that's my interpretation of it.

    That's not what the author meant. See above.
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