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Now it is hard even for me to believe. :-)

To be honest I have little understanding of the information's sources, impact, meaning and results. But I'll wait and see.
 

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Re: Amiga Inc lost the trademark to "Amiga" on January 3rd, 2003
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2003, 06:05:28 PM »
If it works then I'll laugh my socks off for sure :-)
 

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Re: Amiga Inc lost the trademark to "Amiga" on January 3rd, 2003
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2003, 06:39:13 PM »
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If BBRV's part of the show, I'm going and not looking back.

I don't like BBRV, never have never will, he's an arsehole as far as I'm concerned.

If he buys the rights to Amiga, then I'm going for good.


On his defense you have to know that all this begun as an ANN post accusing Genesi with TradeMark infringement.

Then it seems it backfired... BTW I don't believe that it will have serious impact or consequences, yet it's the joke of the month. :-) We'll see though.
 

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Re: Amiga Inc lost the trademark to "Amiga" on January 3rd, 2003
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2003, 09:51:56 AM »
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People, please don't spam ,the nice moderators have told you too. Anyways, it's my opinion that not the trademark, but the sourcecode of 3.1 (or later for that matter) is what makes the OS 'Amiga' not that I'm against other OSes which also happen to be very nice.


It's Haage & Partner which owns the right for the latest official AmigaOS. Not Amiga Inc, and neither Hyperion. And guess what - it's Hyperion which owns the rights for OS4 [with some additional conditions]. Coincidence? :-)
 

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Re: Amiga Inc lost the trademark to "Amiga" on January 3rd, 2003
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2003, 10:20:21 AM »
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Jeez even though Im #1 arrogant bastard I recognise the bias in myself.


In an ideal situation and a calm, prospering community it'd be easy to find some ideal, unbiased ppl. Yet, this community has been twisted, torn with insults, outright lies, etc. I bet there are no unbiased ppl anymore, just a few utterly biased citizens claiming that they are unbiased.

Yet as to amiga.org - I still ready to say that it's the most balanced amiga site. And while accusing Wayne, you have to admire his self restraint he presents at times.

It's not that easy to be unbiased (I'm biased too), yet I think, despite that many claims the contrary, he is aware of that and tries to remain somewhat balanced.

He is biased in a special way though. Under normal conditions one may protect all sides to some reasonable degree, in order to maintain the community. Amiga Inc achieved however, that Wayne just ignores them when trouble happens - he just verifies the facts, and that's all: he won't protect or screen their operation the way he do for anyone else.

Yet, it's up to him, and I have to mention: he does not do actual damage to Amiga Inc, just steps away and let the damage caused by AInc for themselves happen.

Lost of truth - parties harming the community may sooner or later loose the initial good will.

As to which is better for the community? Protecting AInc, or exposing the naked truth? Regarding that matter I trust Wayne's belief.

I have to add, that it's most probably because I personally don't like the current Amiga Inc management that much than I did when they started operating.


Forgive my ranting :-)
 

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Re: Amiga Inc lost the trademark to "Amiga" on January 3rd, 2003
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2003, 11:08:52 AM »
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DaveP wrote:
@Warface

You completely underline rather than undermine my point.


The difference is that I find it acceptable.
 

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Re: Amiga Inc lost the trademark to "Amiga" on January 3rd, 2003
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2003, 03:29:29 PM »
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I have on the other hand tried MorphOS on my PegasosPPC motherboard and I do like it. I don't personally have a lot of professional use for it, but it's much faster and much more usable than any other Amiga I've ever owned in the past.


Don't use that word [EDIT: "usable"] :-) DaveP will eat you for breakfast  ;-)  

Just kidding tho  :-D