Commodore USA

[Piru]

* Was fully open to my suggestion of supporting development of an x86 MorphOS port.

Could you please stop that?

We don't want to have anything to do with this guy.

[Piru]

You have your opinions on certain subjects and I have mine.

Fine. But who appointed you the MorphOS Team spokesperson and authorized you to talk to this CEO about funding?

If you don't want to deal with the guy, tell him so.

You contacted him, not us.

And if you don't want me to express my opinions

You're of course welcome to have your opinions.

However, please don't go talking to random guys about funding MorphOS ports. We'd like to keep that privilege to ourselves.

For the rest: I still think his excuse for the blatant copyright infringement stinks.

[Piru]

@DonnyEMU

Using this thread as a FUD machine against Amiga OS 4.x is way off topic.

Seeing such (well founded) criticsm as "FUD machine" is rather curious. There's no question that beginning to develop to any of the current amigoid incarnations is really hard. The information is scattered to number of forums and there's no centralized location to begin your quest.

Off topic? Well sure, but no-one is on topic all the time here.

"FUD machine against Amiga OS 4.x"? Oh please. Nothing in that message is FUD, but genuine frustration of the situation as it is today.

If this is the official line of amiga.org webmaster I need to seriously reconsider staying a member here.

Google is your friend, but I have a feeling you use Bing.

What the ...?

[Piru]

@Piru

You don't know the history.

How is that relevant?

Your comment came out bad. It seemed as if it was a policy statement, and it certainly had a chilling effect.

You need to be very careful when posting comments wearing the hat you're wearing.

No reason to leave here. DonnyEMU is probability just as much against MorphOS as he is Amiga OS 4.x. His FUD machine would will spread to MorphOS too, give him time.

If that's supposed to somehow validate your behaviour, it doesn't.

He is only here to spread pro Microsoft propaganda and looking for Windows fans. He once was an Amiga user but that was 1000's of years ago. He looking to spread MS news and is pro M$ everything, nothing to see here move along.

Are you serious here? Are we going to put down people because they like to use Windows?

Just to clarify: Is this your personal opinion or official amiga.org policy?

[Piru]

Ok Kolla, explain what al the fuss is about...

Commodore USA uses modified fanart in marketing material without permission.

http://www.aminet.net/pix/trace/AMIGA-fantasyB.jpg
vs
http://www.commodoreusa.net/i/PC64Pro.jpg
http://www.commodoreusa.net/i/AMIGA-fantasyB_3_2_3.jpg
http://www.commodoreusa.net/products.html

See here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54331

This is how the CEO thinks copyright works:
As far as using abandoned artwork, no problem here. Marko Hirv cannot be reached. Period. I tried. No luck. And yes, I did email the company he is at now….again no reply. Find him…I'll deal with him, or anyone else that falls into that category. (source)

[Piru]

Fits the profile. It looks more and more like Hyperion will have to take legal action if they want to defend their position. Which I think they'd like to avoid, considering the financial strain from other developments. The curious part is that I think they'd need to sue Amiga, Inc and not Commodore USA, since CUSA can claim to have licensed the TM in good faith. So if there will be any action it will be Hyperion vs Amiga, Inc all over again.

Even if it would get to that as far as I can tell CUSA could continue to use the trademark they have pending the result from the legal action. The very same way Hyperion kept at it even during the legal proceedings.