Midgets Go to War: Genesi sues Amiga Inc.

[DaveP]

@billsey

I have rarely heard such claptrap in all my
life. Do you think I am illegally using IP by writing an application
to run on AmigaOS?

That is effectively what MorphOS people
did. Whether they used AOS3.1 source code or not is something
that for a long time put up or shut up has been asked and
I guess Amiga Inc took the shut up option.

This lawsuit apparently has nothing to do with that but
in the best traditions of marketing it was alluded to.

@everyone
Every dog has his day.

[DaveP]

@mips_proc

How dare you!

AInc made a search and replace for Intent or Elate keywords
to change it to AmigaDE and AmigaOS.

AInc added a NIC MAC copyright protection based installer
to the Intent installer from TAO.

AInc created a packaging system and called it AmigaAnywhere

AInc deigned to allow Hyperion to sort out AOS4 for PPC.

AInc undermined AOS4 by talking about AOS5 "within a year"

AInc threatened legal action at a few people but never followed through.

AInc closed their offices ( still no new details ), let their websites
get out of date etc..

AInc told lots of silly overoptimistic game plans to certain Amiga magazines
who reprinted them almost verbatim without questioning it.

AInc got a loan off the gullible, the fanatical and the religious
in the userbase.

AInc hired a few people, let a few people go, published a single
magazine that talked about "sheep" and then went quiet.

AInc are doing lots of mega secret ( like Merlancia I guess ) stuff
that you have to be under several NDAs and "trusted" to find out.

Oh and they made a contract with Thendic for the FatBoy
which looks like has just got them in trouble.

So thats what... a weeks work .... spread over two years? And they
say that US productivity rates are low... ;-)

[DaveP]

@downix

 Commodore was in litigation for or against a few dozen companies at any one time. Suing against stupid patents, suing to gain a position on another chip maker's fab process. Jack understood that litigation was an important levereging tool for any business.

Whilst I also welcome actions not words litigation over
technical items ( patents etc ) is usual in the real world and
has nothing to do with chutzpah. Companies only build up
patents to say to each other "I have more on you than you
do on me". Look at IBM for example, it has been stockpiling
patents of mass destruction as a litigation deterrant since the
year dot(com?) and realises value and encourages inventors.

Where this differs is litigation over a /contract/ unless you
know more than you are revealing here.

@notAtDownixSpecifically

I don't see this as a
david and goliath issue given the size of the Amiga Inc staff
seems to be less than the Genesi conglomerate.

Interestingly Alkis said on ANN that there was another
court case that AInc lost - I want to find out more ( although
he could have just been bulling or mistyped ).

However, we aren't the judge and jury of the outcome
and nor should we pretend to be. If this court case
brings about an end to the sabre rattling one way or another
then it will be a good day in the annals of Amigadom.

[DaveP]

Well at least we know that a cat is there that might
eventually get out of the bag.

Im guessing that because I can't find anything
in the public domain ( court documents ) it was settled
out of court anyway.

Else i am looking in the wrong states archives ;-)

[DaveP]

@lempkee

I dont see that at all. I think perhaps you have
read the comments incorrectly.