My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

[dammy]

OK, I just spent some time reading the 43-page settlement between AI and Hyperion. It's clear to me that AI cannot market or allow a licensee to market an operating system with software architecture that is substantially similar to AmigaOS.

You missed the rest of the sentence that quote came from and it's extremely important since it a qualifier in nature.

[dammy]

Well, the BS resume he publishedd doesn't seem to reflect that.

Perhaps you should reread Red's post: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=612887&postcount=1

 

As far as we can tell, he inherited a furniture store and tried to set up a couple satellite TV installer companies.  

No, if you did the research, you would see Homecraft was a recent company compared to Cabletech which he and his brother created an ran until they sold it with 180 stores nation wide. They produced their own equiptment, btw.

That doesn't make him a mover and a shaker in most peoples books.

I think once the TV commercials hit and you see whom C=USA is working with, you will see only a slice of the entire picture compared to what Barry spent hours explaining to us.

[dammy]

If it's called an Amiga it should run AmigaOS, Moochie would agreed.

It can't by legal agreement between AI and Hyperion.

[dammy]

@ Dammy:

All the more reason to leave the name alone, then.

Yup, AmigaOS will not be used in conjunction with C=USA Amigas.

[dammy]

Workbench X will be a Amiga OS. It will run on Amigas and it will be produced by Commodore. Thus, it becomes an Amiga OS. Your argument that it will not be related to any of the current amiga like OSes is valid.

We don't know the name of the follow on OS yet.  As I have said before, I'm not overly interested in WB5 but the follow on that has my attention.

[dammy]

You see I don't get why folk can make a statement like that and believe it, they are not attempting to revive the Amiga they are setting up a business that will sell PCs running an Amiga emulator, that in no way can be described as reviving the Amiga...

Unless of course they are planning to revive it with a modern Amigaoid OS, then the emulator/sandbox is for backward capability for the original OS. So far, all you have seen is the C64x and the Vic series but you want to point to the C64x/Vic as the new Amiga, which it isn't.

[dammy]

Question:  Do you even understand what you're supposed to be selling?

The items C=USA are about to put into the market place are the C64x and Vic series.  Do you understand that C=USA Amigas are not scheduled to be launched yet?

[dammy]

I hate to correct you, but he isn't selling anything at all
 

 
Well, we're past the superbowl as it turns out. I dont watch the thing, so someone else can fill in if there were any computer adds

No, as I said he decided against it because the C64x stock would not be ready soon enough.  The four TV adds he showed us was pretty good, the fifth was still in storyboard shape and that one I kinda hope doesn't make it, a bit too controversial for the market Barry is aiming for IMO.

He broke down how fast that $2.5M is going to be spent over I think it's a 15 day period.  So much money, so little total time.

[dammy]

Nice spin on the history. And I thought that A.Inc sued Hyperion to get the right for AOS4. AFAICS they did not succeed in that. I don't think they had to sue Hyperion to keep the trademark on the Amiga name or for OS3.x

greets,
Staf.

I took TMHG's "relevant IP" as meaning as far as what AI has as far as source code, trademarks, and copyrights.