If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?

[djrikki]

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

[djrikki]

If A.org was gone, you'd all survive on an existing or a new forum - it wouldn't be the end of the world folks.  Its just that a prominent TLD would point to somewhere more relevant in 2012.  And Karlos, this thread is pure fantasy and 'what if' is it not? :p

If someone with serious cash (I do not agree that 200k would not be enough however, thats just what I would do) came along and wanted to invest in AmigaOS than they'd probably want to reshape the current landscape - is that not fair to say?  I think thats a fair assumption.

Of course the word 'deterimental' means different things to different people.  You wouldn't expect to visit the Apple forums today and find people talking about OS 8 every other post so why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.