Amiga Celeron 2.4GHz WTH?

[Nitro]

@ adz
I agree the OS should have been made GPL, and It realy doesn`t matter to me and apparently not to Amiga Inc if they receive money from the name and products.  The fact still remains there are rules and laws in this world that have to be followed.
Just because a business is not making the most of it`s property it doesn`t give someone else the right to take and use it. Even a music group still would have to pay the group or record label for the use of a song of a dead musician.

[adz]

Nitro wrote:
@ adz
I agree the OS should have been made GPL, and It realy doesn`t matter to me and apparently not to Amiga Inc if they receive money from the name and products.  The fact still remains there are rules and laws in this world that have to be followed.
Just because a business is not making the most of it`s property it doesn`t give someone else the right to take and use it. Even a music group still would have to pay the group or record label for the use of a song of a dead musician.

At the same time it is not our job to seek out and report violations of Amiga Incs rights, let them worry about it, because at the end of the day, nothing useful will come of it.

adz wrote:
At the same time it is not our job to seek out and report violations of Amiga Incs rights, let them worry about it, because at the end of the day, nothing useful will come of it.

I haven't seen a better, more accurate sentiment in many, many years.

We can bring it up to them, but if they choose not (or are unable) to act, then it's really none of our business.  As McEwen said once "[We're] not the ones who shelled out 5 million for the name".

Wayne

[Lando]

Nitro wrote:
At any rate the website in question appears to be down now.

Nope.  Still there.  And still selling Amigas.

[Nitro]

@ Lando
Must just be my computer, I just get a error page.

Quote: Nope. Still there. And still selling Amigas.

Oh well, always good to see new AROS hardware.  
I hope they have better luck than KMOS err.. Amiga Inc.

[JoePillow]

Nitro wrote:
@ JoePillow

If all it took was for a company to be inactive, there would be flocks of companys selling Amiga brand computers.  There would be OS4 hardware here and now, but it doesn`t work like that.  This is about computer and the brand name.
From the Amiga Inc. site: The Amiga brand name is recognized worldwide...

Well, this is the point I was trying to make. Companies named "Amiga, Inc." are already flocking. :-) If each US state can have one company with a given name, there soon may be 50 "Amiga, Inc." companies, and if one hands out a press kit the other will feel it has a right to have it removed from eBay, and nobody in the community will even think for a second that these are different entities, and that company B maybe has no right over what company A handed out.

As I indicated, official records show that the web site and the trademark mentioned in this thread in relation to the Australian company are owned by the former Amiga, Inc. of Washington, not by Amiga, Inc. of Delaware. These are two separate companies. Redrumloa sold on eBay something that the Washington company had handed out. But it was another company, based in Delaware, who complained to eBay. Why do we keep treating them as one, if ownership of domains and trademarks is not in the hands of only one? Why do we always accept that they can keep confusing us with this game of identical names but different companies? This game is not honest, IMHO.

[Nitro]

@ JoePillow

Indeed the name game was confusing. A lot of people have theory’s that it was just away of avoiding debts.  When I came across the site it just threw me off, after having read so many forums about possible x86 ports of Amiga OS and why it can never happen.  Perhaps the company has indeed legal rights as you`ve said.  In that way it reminds me of how Yellowtab is able to market Zeta(BeOS), without getting involved with PALM after they bought it from Be Inc.

[AmigaPete]

leirbag28 wrote:

this would defame the Amiga name,

Yeah, damn them for making computers. Amiga Inc. has to fight to uphold their long standing tradition of not making hardware. What does Amiga Computers think they are doing by actually having computers available for purchase? What is the Amiga computer world coming to?

Pete

(Yes I realize that the Amiga Computers are only Amiga in name, but if you haven't figured out the liberal dose of sarcasm applied to this post by now then just move along, nothing to see here.)

 :-D

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