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- From: dukat@suba.com (Lawrence Wilson)
- 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!!!!
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 06:27:41 GMT
- Organization: Suba Communications
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- David Meyer (dmeyer@tiac.net) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Who knows? Maybe we'll see Amiga clones!
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