Magnussoft, through their ZETA-OS site, issued a statement yesterday where they reveal that their distribution of ZETA has stopped, in effect immediately. According to their statement, this is due to ownership doubts raised by Mr. Schlesinger of Access Company, in a post over at Bits of News, later confirmed by e-mail to the same site:

"We have, however, sent "cease and desist" letters to YellowTab on a number of occasions, which have been uniformly ignored. If Herr Korz feels that he holds a legitimate license to the BeOS code he's been using, we're completely unaware of it, and I'd be fascinated to see him produce any substantiation for that claim."

Mr. Schlesinger goes on to state that, on the matter of BeOSMAX, he (and thus Access I presume) has no formed opinion and is still gathering information on the R5-based distribution.

Bernd Korz has posted on his blog that he's contacting his lawyer on the subject of this alegations and will issue a statement. This whole matter closely follows the end of ZETA and have turned the BeOS & ZETA world and community in a turmoil. We look forward to have everything made clear and as soon as we have news on this whole matter, we'll keep you posted.

Update: BeosMAX's Vasper posted here at ICO about this, and according to him, MAX has received an (unofficial so far but a step in the right direction) OK from Mr. Schlesinger and Access, of which you can read at his blog.