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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: AMIGA LICENSED!!!!
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 19:17:10 GMT
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- Flexy (starecjc@hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE) wrote:
- : >Just got it from my local board. From a person with a VERY personal
- : >pipeline to AT. The Amiga has just been licensed by Escom. This
- : >means we will be seeing third party Amigas out there.
- : >
- :
- : Ya're kiddin' aren't ya ? (April 1st is over ;)
- :
- : what means "is licensed BY Escom" ? Typo ?
- :
- : AT _is_ a subsection OF Escom and Escom has the "license" for Amiga since
- : they bought Commodore ;)
- :
- More info would be helpful, but I understood (misunderstood?) it
- to mean that the originator has a buddy at AT who passed along the info
- that Escom has managed to license (licensed by) the Amiga technology to
- some other company. Not that AT licensed it -to- Escom. OTOH, corporate
- dealings could require such a move if some other subsidiary wanted to use
- the technology - but I doubt that. OTOH (ain't it great to have three
- hands?) his "buddy" could have posted the joke on the 1st and it took him
- two days to forward it.
-
- Without more info, we can't know.
-