Midgets Go to War: Genesi sues Amiga Inc.

[zacman]

>I really wonder what Bill $ wants to achieve with
>this (IMO) lame action.

bbrv announced that they will post more details on
morphos-news.de when the judgment is reached
this week.

[zacman]

>Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think the illegal code
>was deleted and rewritten by the MOS team.

Why do you think that it ever included illegal code?
Because Amiga Inc. and Hyperion told so in public
forums?

These are things for a court and nothing for public.  
If you think something violates your IP or whatever
then you have to go to court and not to
amiga.org/ann.lu/... That's how it works. Nothing else
Genesi has done.

[zacman]

>Again this lawsuit is totally unrelated to Genesi's >continuous mentions of the fact that Amiga Inc >regards that MorphOS is illegal.

Nobody said it was. It's clear: "breech of contract".

> (Originally publicly revealed by Ralph in interviews
>a long time ago

Didn't you want to post a proof together with a URL?

[zacman]

>Can you provide evidence as to the slander/libel
>suit filed against Amiga, Inc./Hyperion for having
>publically made false statements damaging to the
>reputation and business of the MorphOS team

From ann.lu:

"[News] the next ppc amiga : Comment 216 of 359
Link

Posted by fleecy moss (195.92.198.74) on 20-
May-2002 11:14

2.Amiga compatability within MorphOS comes from
illegally obtained source tapes and we will use all
legal process to prevent it from entering the
market."

"[Unmoderated] Ralph Schmidt comments on deal
with Amiga Inc : Comment 66 of 147 Link

Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion (213.224.83.38) on
04-Nov-2001 17:15

The failure of Amiga Inc and the MorphOS team to
come to terms is in part due to the fact that Amiga
wants to assert their ownership and intellectual
property rights over the Amiga OS (for which they
paid 4.5 M USD) whilst the MorphOS team happily
continues to refute those claims (whilst recompiling
OS 3.0/OS 3.1 source-code)."

[zacman]

>I invite you to check the Commdore patent portfolio
>now held by Gateway.

I invite you to check the date of these patents.

[zacman]

>Interestingly Alkis said on ANN that there was
>another court case that AInc lost - I want to find out
>more

I found it not wise that Alkis said this as the one who
is concerned might not want to discuss this in public
forums.

[zacman]

>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

No same state. Maybe even the same lawyers