Amiga brand name for sale

[the_leander]

..."Amiga, the name for its expensive multimedia workstation".

Nice. :rolleyes:

Given the truly insane legal issues and bad blood that surround Amiga and Hyperion etc, if the worst dig the mainstream tech press have is at the projected cost of the X1000, you're having a good day.

[the_leander]

Is it just the Amiga trademark that is being sold, and nothing else?

I don't think there is anything else left, most, if not all of the patents have expired.

[the_leander]

There has got to be something other than the patents -- everything that has a copyright on it, for example?

Copyright for what? They lost the right to do anything with AmigaOS. So far as I'm aware, they never attempted to get any of the IP for the old commodore chipsets.

What kind of company announces that "Commodore USA" has the exclusive marketing rights to Amiga then puts the Amiga trademark itself up for sale?  (Yes, Amiga Inc. is that kind of company.)

One that doesn't have much of an alternative. Hyperion has the OS, and the Amiga community absolutely savaged him. The brand whist it's in either McBill's or Barrys hands is toxic.

[the_leander]

Who owns the IP for the chipsets?

Gateway2000, probably.

But really, at this late stage, who cares? All of the released C='s chipsets have been reverse engineered to the point where serviceable emulations exist both in software and on FPGA's. The IP for the chipsets is utterly worthless.

 And I thought it was clear that earlier OS was not owned by Hyperion anyway

Doesn't matter. The court settlement forbids Amiga.Inc from going anywhere near AmigaOS, or even AROS for that matter. Anyone they licence the name to would likely also be forbidden from doing so either.

Not everyone is anti-Hyperion, BTW

No wai, really?! Gosh darn, and here I am, having been on this site since before the great reboot and I never guessed!

/sarcasm

 -- there certainly are some very vocal folks that are!

With damn good reason too.

By Savaged, I was referring to Barry.

[the_leander]

Perhaps C-USA will buy the Amiga name outright and use AROS with impunity.

They couldn't though. The settlement stated clearly that Amiga.inc were forbidden from producing an AmigaOS or Amiga-like OS of their own. If Barry licences the name or buys out AI, they would be bound by that settlement also.

[the_leander]

That's not true if Amiga Inc. is selling the Amiga trade name and not the company.  Anyone can buy 'Amiga' and sell systems bundled with AROS (including you, me, or Barry).

Yeah I'm going to go with "I don't want to be sued by Hyperion or potentially be found in contempt for 60, Alice".