In court docs: Hyperion states AROS "probably illegal"

[itix]

How about applications like AmigaAmp? AmigaWriter? Whatever AmigaSomething apps are out there...

[itix]

@uncharted

Using someone else's trademark as part of your application name is not the smartest to do at the best of times, but for AROS is was particularly stupid.

I dont think it was stupid because AROS was ever supposed to be "serious" project. It started as a research project.

Funnily Amiga decided to sue Hyperion for trademark infringement... :-P

[itix]

So is that why it originally stood for Amiga Replacement Operating System?

Humm, dunno. I didnt know it was a "replacement" in the past. Though, Amiga can meam both Amiga computers and its operating system. If you ask me I read it as "replacement OS for Amiga" ;-)

[itix]

Nice try. They're the Amiga ports of NetBSD and OpenBSD. Thats still not quite the same as "Amiga Research Operating System". If that was valid, then anyone could call their operating system "AmigaOS".

Please remember "AmigaOS" trademark was crafted in late 90s. Commodore never called it AmigaOS. It was nameless until modern times.

Or, why not try and sell PCs as "Sony Research Playstation 3"?

I think proper example would be "Playstation Research Operating System".

You should not use Amiga OS -> Amiga "R" OS intuition, it just is not right.