AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD for the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system has gone GOLD!

[takemehomegrandma]

"Trevor Dickinson added, I have just received my own AmigaONE X1000 system and I hope "First Contact" owners will have as much fun as I'm having with my new "AmigaOne".

There, I corrected it for you!

Anyways, good news for the X1000 customers...

[takemehomegrandma]

Another question this PR raises is:

Ssolie previously said that OS4.1.3, OS4.1.4 and OS4.1.5 was all planned as part of his "frequent update releases" scheme, but this new PR almost sounds like the OS4.1.5 will only be for the X1000, and the new version for all the other supported hardware platforms will be OS4.2.0? So which one is it? Will OS4.1.5 be released as a bugfix update for existing OS4.1.4 users as well, and will it finally be an ISO (or maybe they will get the CD as well)? Or if no bugfix release will follow OS4.1.4 for existing OS4 users, will OS4.2.0 be a free upgrade for them as well, or was 4.1.4 how far the existing users will come without having to buy the OS once again at the release of OS4.2.0?

[takemehomegrandma]

Damn, I would had a bet today that you will be the first to post on AmigaOS 4.1 news item.

Well, I simply spotted that one of the stake-holders of th X1000 was marketing his product by calling it "Amiga", which they specifically don't have a license to do. And the thing is, there are other entities who paid good money *to have* that right, and who also have the right to *take legal actions* against such infringements. They can call it "AmigaOne" or "Amiga One" in their marketing, but they can't market it as "Amiga". Potentially, mistakes/violitions like that could jeopardize the whole Amiga Inc <-> Hyperion settlement, depending on the mood of the other relevant IP holders...

[takemehomegrandma]

How is that NOT clear?

OK, English is not my native language, but I take it from your tone that I'm missing out on the obvious here. I guess I'll have to wait and see then...

[takemehomegrandma]

spotted a real typo through just in the following sentence.

They can't discard/explain this away as a typo, they are not allowed to use "Amiga" in their marketing, period. I believe I recall ssolie did the same once as well...

[takemehomegrandma]

Again with the "GONE GOLD", as if OS4 has sold over 500,000 copies.

Maybe it just mean that they have now collected €500,000 EUR (from 200 customers paying €2500 each), meaning GOLD in their pockets?

[takemehomegrandma]

Reality thing: THis is new Amiga (I can say AMIGA, yes?)

Yes, *you* can call it "Amiga", and *I* can call it "Amiga" (I could even call my MacMini/MorphOS system an "Amiga", although I don't, since it was a long time the trade mark lost its meaning to me), because nobody would bother taking action against us, even if they could (which they can't), but nobody associated to Hyperion/A-eon can do this, especially not in a marketing context (which Press Releases definitely are) since they are corporate entities making commercial business based on a license agreement that carefully outlines what they can and can't do regarding the said trade mark. And like it or not, they can't call it "Amiga". Others could (having paid good money for that right), but *they* can't. Money is involved, and multiple parties that doesn't really like each other very much, and like it or not - *there are* legitimate reasons to cancel agreements such as the one between the Amiga IP owner and Hyperion Entertainment.

[takemehomegrandma]

Amiga just mean friend in Spanish nobody own that word.

Learn the basics of trademark laws, and then come back and try again, thanks for playing...

[takemehomegrandma]

What ever became of the title: Work Bench?

As a Trade Mark in this context? I'm kind of certain that someone has it registered. Hmm, who was it? Was it Cloanto?

[takemehomegrandma]

(Edit: Hmm, "djrikki", aren't you the guy behind the http://amigaos.net/ site, that tried to deceive people about OS4's capabilities? http://i40.tinypic.com/2af9xi.jpg?)

Ahh a blue butterfly means MorphOS right... last time I looked the domain name was Amiga.org... oh well guess grandma has nothing better to do than moan and bicker... must be jealousy creeping in...

Please spare us with brains from your pointless venom.

AmigaOne = Amiga
Amiga = AmigaOne

No, no, no.

You are using the mathematical sign "equals to" above.

But in those legal conditions that builds *THE VERY GROUND FOR HYPERION'S OS4* there can't be no equal signs there! They aren't allowed!

besides it was a personal quote so he can say whatever he wants.

No, his words were part of an *Official Press Release*! He is speaking on behalf of one of the corporations enjoying the license agreement between the Amiga IP owner and Hyperion!

[takemehomegrandma]

Child comment, very sad.

No, not at all, very true. You don't know what you are talking about, so stop talking. Please!

[takemehomegrandma]

and that comes from someone that are claiming morphos is Amiga.

I'm not!

[takemehomegrandma]

and that comes from someone that are claiming morphos is Amiga.

MorphOS is not Amiga, never claimed that!

But here is another Amiga. All valid trademark!

http://www.amigaab.se/

Please let me know when you start understanding...

[takemehomegrandma]

Personally I was expecting the HTML5 engine of Odyssey to have been released for OS4 by now, but it seems to have but on hold for some reason or another.

Please, there are no *obligations* from the Odyssey developer towards OS4. All is fine on MorphOS, it beats IE9 anyday, both in HTML5 and CSS3, in an "Ibrowse Way"...! As far as I understand things, there are some major limitations in OS4 holding back some of the portings...

[takemehomegrandma]

MorphOS is Amiga done right!

Close enough, but just with your own special way of putting it.

Regarding my signature:

It's obviously meaning (or at least it's meant to mean): "MorphOS is what Amiga was about and should have been in the next generation" (and *not* that MorphOS = "Amiga(TM)", rather the opposite; leaving the "Amiga(TM)" behind and moving forward...)