Obviously they do, as they dropped Aros support due to the treat of legal action from them.
AFAIK, AROS was dropped on several reasons. One was it wasn't ready for prime time since it could not use the second core of the dual core Atom. It would crash and do other annoying things that would not be viable for a commercial project of this size. Yes, the legal issue made Leo nervous but I still say he should reread the agreement between AI and Hyperion again, there is significant wording in that agreement that should sooth his nerves.
The whole bases of the case that Amiga Inc have got with Cloanto is that using the name Workbench will damage other Amiga related products, now if they dont mean AmigaOS, what do they mean?
Hell if I know, I am not AI nor C=USA. Go ask AI.
It be more correct, the only reason I can think they are using version 5 is to make it either seem to be more superior to AmigaOS4 or make it appear its it natural successor. Plus if it has no relation to the original AmigaOS or Workbench, why is it not just called Workbench 1, it is after all the first version of this new OS.
AI apparently has given it's blessing to use the term Workbench. Go ask them.
I agree on that one, but I still see a few things on the commodore site that I'm pretty sure they didn't get permission to use first.
We don't know what they have permission to use and what they don't. If you have IP they are using without permission, your free to seek corrective measures.
Nothing wrong with the Commodore-amiga.org site, its actually the best thing C=USA or its fans have done.
It's fans, and yes it's evolving quickly under Terminill's work.
Thats still £6 million a year, so what did they spend it on in the first year, it cant be public relation. :roflmao:.
No, it's $6 million USD @ year if it's all done equally which I doubt.
Did they support any Amiga show, event, developer, or any one in the community for its first year? (and don't say well they dont have a product to show, and they only just started business and only just got the rights etc etc, Aeon had only just started only just got something to show and yet still supported every major amiga event and sponsored competition and help developers.) will CommodoreUSA ever do anything like this, it would go a long way to convincing Amiga users and they would only have to spend 1% of there advertising budget, if even that. Just £50 donation towards any part of the amiga community I would be thankful from CommodoreUSA. (and again, this is not blackmail, trying to force the company to invest in an area of the market it has no interest in, but number 1. it would go along way to convincing people they do want to help the amiga community, 2. many other company in amiga world donate, even ageist their business, look at cloanto for example giving donation to make a legal free kickstart when its main business is selling these roms legally. Aeon/trever has donated and bought a lot from morphos and aros camps and he meant to be supporting OS4. 3. I think it would be seen as a good gesture from them. )
I am not expecting much out of C=USA until they are making a profit. Which means they start selling C64x in high volume to their distribution systems. I'm not expecting much out of WB5 either, something really worth while takes a significant amount of time which C=USA hasn't really had enough of do much.
