Amiga technology and patents ownership ?

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bloodline wrote:

Because 68k asm source code for a 15 years old operating system is very close to useless. TECHNOLOGY HAS MOVED ON! :-D

So what about an OS that tries to be a carbon copy of 15 year old operating system?

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@Boing

Yes I'm aware of that ruling, it was brought up (along with the C= 1.0 source in a book episode) by many a blue when MorphOS' legal status is being questioned.

However, while Escom were a bunch of monkeys, I'd imagine that Gateway would have done thier homework.  I think there is little chance that the corporate sharks, er, I mean, lawyers would have over-looked something as obvious as that.

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@Senex

Don't forget that Amiga Development LLC filed several patents on systems/technologies they created themselves. (AmigaObjects Etc.)  

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 :-?

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Actually IIRC both were sold to Escom.  They definately sold C= branded PCs in the short time between the Amiga sale going through and Escom going bust.

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http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/commodore.html

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bhoggett wrote:

I can confirm that they didn't use the Commodore brand in the UK. They sold their PCs under the Escom brand here, as I said, in their own chain of high-street shops. Occasionally, those shops would have an Amiga somewhere under a pile of boxes at the back, but the staff rarely knew anything about them.

They did use C= in the UK, for a small line of PCs.  Yes, most were branded Escom, but they also sold C= Branded PCs, but only for a very short time before they went Belly up.