#Renegade Software
It goes deeper than that. Kodak has an agreement with Phillips which
essentially has Phillips acting as the agent for Kodak Photo-CD
support on computing devices to most of the world. And with all the
money they are dumping into the 30 minute infomercials for CD-I, they
are not about to let anyone (even someone as inept as CBM) into a
market that will compete directly with CD-I.
I would bet the situation is that Phillips would not give Commodore
International a Photo-CD license so CBM is trying a North American
Internal route, but Kodak probably isn't seeing enough in it to
jeopardize a realtion with Phillips.