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Re: Who currently owns the rights
« on: November 13, 2004, 11:19:57 AM »
History of the Amiga

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While Gateway still owns the Amiga patents, Amino acquires the right to use Amiga patents, all existing licenses, trademarks logos, Amiga OS, Amiga International (including current operation, inventory, the Amiga International internet site and registered domain names).

Amino has changed its name to Amiga Corporation.

It looks like Amiga HW is controlled by Gateway still.

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Re: Who currently owns the rights
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2004, 11:22:42 AM »
Oh, this is interesting:

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The much exalted Plug-and-Play could come to be only after Microsoft bought the Amiga AutoConfig technology patents.

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Re: Who currently owns the rights
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2004, 10:51:13 PM »
Collect some money and buy rights for Amiga HW from Gateway. Easy peacy ;-)

But one problem still exists. You would need Kickstart ROMs too. Not that easy I think.
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Re: Who currently owns the rights
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2004, 08:20:35 PM »
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Perhaps the OCS and ECS info is lost, but everything was squashed into LISA and ALICE, and VLSI probably has the AKIKO and LISA filed away somewhere in their old toolset.

HP manufactured bunch of Lisas in 90s. Cant remember why and when but I recall it was when Amiga Technologies and ESCOM was around...?
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