Also when I first announced that I was working on an A500-style case you emailed me saying that you were interested. I nearly fell for it.
Then the behaviour coming from you, CUSA and Barry made me change my mind. Something didn't add up.
Oh, this I didn't know. The added element of sour-grapes on their part explains things even further.
Oh, go back and look for yourself, especially on AmigaWorld.net; *Many* people were utterly terrified of even the thought of someone else than Hyperion selling an Amiga like OS coupled with an Amiga branded computer, and expressed relief and appreciation when they learned of Hyperion's actions to prevent this.
I'm simply baffled by the double standards you people are showing here.
Hmm, maybe so then. In any case, I am not beholden to Hyperion, and I maintain the same opinion: this was petty revenge on the part of a company whose CEO has acted like a spoiled child from day one, and the only sad surprise here is that his relatively more sane underling has joined him in rude, counterproductive bullying of people the community
actually cares about.
Oh really? Well, you are *obviously* right; "TheDaddy" has spent, was it seven years? to craft himself some kind of case out of bent sheet metal. I'm sure he had fun doing it, but that's all there is to it! And look at what Commodore did during just the last few years, you may not like them, but you are a *fool* if you try to deny them the fact that they *did* get the rights to use the Commodore brand, they *did* get the rights to use the Amiga brand. They *did* put the C64x to the market!
Yes, yes, they
did pay for reproduction C64 cases and put generic sub-par PCs in them and charge a lot of markup for them!
An accomplishment indeed! Clearly more worthy of the community's devotion than a guy making things people really want, not jerking anybody around with made-up claims of hundreds of thousands of units in Wal-Marts around the country, and planning to charge a fair price for them!
They have shown they have the financial means, the corporate infrastructure, the marketing, the knowledge, they have *the lot* to get uniquely designed, real, tangible, manufactured and branded products out of the door!
"The financial means" = "they have money." Big whoop, Trevor Dick has money too, and he made something comparatively expensive to the CUSA "Amiga" but much more interesting.
"The corporate infrastructure" = what, now? They paid to have a rapid-prototyping service roll a batch of cases, bought boards in mass quantities, and either paid someone to have them assembled or build them in their strip-mall office. Anybody with the money can do that.
"The marketing" is just laughable. Their marketing consisted of paying Disney for an ad spot nobody cared about, ballyhooing themselves to a handful of tech sites who gave their machines the dismissal they deserved, and spending two years persistently and thoroughly alienating the entire community that might have been interested in their products in the first place. Yeah, that's advertising expertise.
And yeah, they made some actual products. Big whoop; if the products are significantly-to-ludicrously overpriced generic PC clones in moderately-to-barely custom cases, who gives a damn? It's wasted effort in the best of cases. You might as well exalt a hobo for knowing where to get the best cheap bourbon.
It was two short sentences, in a friendly tone, asking "TheDaddy" to not market his "product" using CUSA's licensed trade mark. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yeah, it was "friendly" in the same sense a mobster coming in and saying "nice shop you got here, be a shame if something
happened to it" is "friendly." Leo's own admission that this was an act of petty revenge doesn't exactly make it sound any more legitimately good-natured, either.
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Amiga trademark was abandoned as of September 19, 2011.
Well, someone hurry up and re-register it, then!
