In court docs: Hyperion states AROS "probably illegal"

[CannonFodder]

Surely the A in AROS stood for Amiga because it ran on Amiga hardware not because it is Amiga OS?

Amix==Amiga Unix is one similar example off the top of my head.

Would Windows Research OS or Windows Replacement OS be killed by MS?

Anyway, as Xeron has said the A stands for AROS now. ;-)

[CannonFodder]

So when are this and this going to feel the wrath of Amiga Stinks lawyers?

And this too.

They all use the trademark "Amiga" in their name and they are all Operating Systems that run on Amiga hardware like AROS.

[CannonFodder]

xeron wrote:
Nice try. They're the Amiga ports of NetBSD and OpenBSD. Thats still not quite the same as "Amiga Research Operating System". If that was valid, then anyone could call their operating system "AmigaOS".

If you're so sure that its fine, prove it by releasing a fork of ReactOS called "Microsoft Research Windows" and see how long you last.

Or, why not try and sell PCs as "Sony Research Playstation 3"?

Or maybe buy a truck load of unbranded TV sets from the far east and sell them as "Sony Research Bravias"?

Why do you care?

[CannonFodder]

xeron wrote:

CannonFodder wrote:
Why do you care?

I'm just playing devils advocate and putting forward a reason why Evert would say what he did in that email.

Sorry, I thought you were riled up about it.

My bad. :-)

[CannonFodder]

adz wrote:
Having spent many years browsing various forums throughout the WWW, I've never come across one that contains so many instances of the following words:

legal
illlegal
legally

I dare say a.org contains more instances than the teamspace of a major law firm. Where does the Amiga community get this "holier than thou" approach to just about everything, be it the 1000 odd "backups" someone might have in their basement or the tit for tat battle over the Amiga name itself. I came to this site to talk about Amigas, if I want courtroom action filled with oodles of boring litigation, I'll watch Judge Judy.

You think here is bad, BAFWorld and morons.net are much worse for sanctimonious self-righteous arm chair lawyering.