Evert Carton leaves Hyperion

[dammy]

Have they confirmed the post is from him yet? I do suspect someone could be pulling a prank.

I doubt the AWN staff would post it as news if they didn't confirm it first.

[dammy]

If you don't mind of giving an unprofessional impression of you and MorphOS as well.

greets,
Staf.

I would say he was spot on with that comment.  You still doing OS4 and AROS development?

[dammy]

"San Diego-based Gateway will retain ownership of all Amiga patents acquired when it purchased the bankrupt company. "

I think thats pretty clear, amino bought the name and amiga.com website, not the patents or ip.

Steven

The only thing Acer has is the hardware patents which the vast majority (if not all) have expired.  Trademarks, logos, copyrights went to Amiga Inc along with Amiga inventory.

[dammy]

Your evidence for this is?

That was announced back when Amiga Inc bought (in adition, licenses for Amiga patents) Amiga from GW (now Acer). What was that, 11 years ago?

[dammy]

Actually, the article while informative (sort of) still gives us no clear idea who owns the OS.
It clearly does not mention anything other than trademarks being transferred to Amino. and it only mentions patents as being retained by Gasteway.
This leaves the status of the OS as an unknown.
And, as I've mentioned before, Amiga Inc. has never produced any documentation proving they own the OS.

I doubt they would since that would be apart of their purchase and license agreement with Gateway.  I doubt they would make that public if they didn't have to.  OS 3.1 and earlier is AI's.  There would be zero reason for GW/Acer to want to keep it, it was badly outdated even then.

[dammy]

That's kinda funny, considering how air planes are catapulted from air craft carriers using steam engines, and they for sure have lots of patents attached.

New US built aircraft carriers have the old steam cats replaced with something more modern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Aircraft_Launch_System