Genesi Won Lawsuit against Amiga Inc.

[Jose]

"...and the full use of the Amiga trademarks"

?!!! How come? Wasn't this about DE only? If this is true there will be major confusion in the old users that will be interested in the new Amigas.
 I remember Bill Buck saying Genesi had NO interest in the trademark, so let's see if he was telling the truth about it.
Is this news posted with intend to lead to misinterpretation as has happened already? I'm particularly refering to this: "...including source code access to the licensed Amiga operating system".
Or maybe AInc was calling DE AmigaOS, as they were doing when they bought the rights to the trademark.

I suggest everyone to wait and see what actually this is all about: AmigaDE vs AmigaOS , and WICH trademarks are they granted to use.
But if they get the Amiga, or AmigaOS trademark, not just the DE one this will have major impact that's for sure.

I'm getting sympathy for NO company. Just another thing that makes me go Linux.

[Jose]

@KennyR
"..while chasing off all its users"

LOL! Sorry couldn't help it. Where did that happend?
I hated them when they were ditching AmigaOS and just using the tradmarks to do their own thing. But most of the reasons you point out now are the direct result of the company having no resources. I'm pretty sure they're not broke by their own will.

By the way, FFS how come Genesi doesn't win anything? They are direct competitors! Even if they gain some haters and gain bad reputation within the Amiga community the trademark is still VERY usablle marketwise.

[Jose]

@KennyR

"About the part where they announced 800 dollar motherboards. And of course, by starting OS4 for real so damn late and alienating all of the people who already had code and the skills."

Yeah, some stuff there, but that's not like "chasing all the users". My time to ask you. What would they gain by making false announcements?

The MOS as AOS4 deal didn't come up for BOTH companies not being able to reach an agreement. That's all we know. I'm pretty sure it's easy to imagine valid reasons for both sides.

    "By the way, FFS how come Genesi doesn't win anything? They are direct competitors!

Wrong."

What's your reasoning then? Fighting for a trademark and OS is not competing?. There might be more implications for this than just the DE deal you know, mostly if they get to use some trademarks, like AmigaOS. Unless they are lying in their announcement and it's not about "the full use of the Amiga trademarks" after all.

[Jose]

@Gopal

Unfortunately I do remember some of them. They rushed too much to announcing stuff in the beggining. But I'm not pursuing damages from them Specially for announcements.