AMIGA OS 3.1 license signed In a related story, phase 5 digital products will be able to use Amiga OS 3.1 in their future products after signing a license agreement with Amiga International. "l I e are glad to see that with phase 5 digital products another M important developer and M manufacturer in the Amiga market m shows his commitment towards the y Amiga OS 3.1", said Petro Tyschtschenko of Amiga ¦ International. "As phase 5 has led the development of PowerPC R products for the Amiga, this is an important agreement which will give a significant momentum to the future x. The Steering Committees of the Jay Miner Society (JMS) and the Industry Council of the Open .Amiga (ICOA) announced this month that the JMS has been appointed to hold elections for the position of User Representative on the next Steering Committee of the ICOA, which will take over in mid-April. The ICOA is a non-profit organisation which develops and promotes standards and provides support for Amiga developers. It has been chosen by Amiga Inc. to provide the official developer support program for the Amiga in the future. The position of User Representative is being created to help the ICOA in making decisions that benefit and satisfy .Amiga users in general, not just programmers and manufacturers. The JMS is a nonprofit making international user group devoted to empowering Amiga users and fostering the spirit of the Amiga. It created the ICOA initiative and launched it in May 1997. The User Representative will have a full voting seat on the Steering Committee for a period of one year, alongside the four seats for those elected by ICOA members, and a permanent, non-voting, veto seat occupied by an Amiga Inc. representative. This position, combining the roles of consumer advocate, opinion-gatherer, strategist and community liaison, will require a serious commitment of time and effort. The JMS and other user organisations will provide support for this. The Committee will have face-to-face meetings roughly every three months and will also attend selected .Amiga shows.