Acer buys Gateway

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alexh wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6965520.stm

Doesnt Gateway still own some part of the Amiga? Some patents etc?

Most famously, the patent for the two button mouse. None or few amiga patents as such.

"The technology which was sold to Gateway was primarily a deal to buy the patent on the 2-button mouse... That is why Gateway bought Amiga -- but then they got... thousands of emails asking if they were going to relaunch the Amiga. So they figured, 'why not?'"

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