Amiga Inc sues Hyperion VOF for trademark infringement

[Matt_H]

dammy wrote:

Just pay Hyperion what they're asking and be done with it. Hell, I'd bet the community would pony up the money to do so if it meant getting a voice as an investor and getting the product out the door.

From what I read from the law suit paperwork, they did pay the $25K plus another $8K or so and still have not gotten the source code, which includes the Twin's work.

Dammy

Yeah. So just give them more. It's essentially pocket change if similar figures are involved.

[Glittering]

mmmmmmm, got something against hyperion have we, what have they done to u then, you joined just to troll?

Hyperion have been holding OS4 hostage long enough, it is about time the blind arse licking towards Hyperion stops. Forcing them to release the prisoner (OS4) is a must, if Amiga OS wants to survive.

I wonder if some of you are more interested in the companies rather than the actual product(s).

[a-pex]

May this is interesting, but the domain www.amiga.de is still not working, because someone complained wrong data in the accounting.

[Argo]

CLS2086 wrote:
An an other interesting point  :-P
Was is AmigaOne ?
Page 9 : line 25-27....

The MicroA1 and SE/XE are motherboard. They are not the AmigaOne, and any computer built with these motherboards would not be an AmigaOne.

Yeah, I found that interesting.  Did Eyetech drop the ball or what? Guess they didn't know they were suppost to be marketing whole computer systems and not just motherboards. Are they still even around to get sued? Why were they not sued before when selling "AmigaOnes"?

[a-pex]

Amiga Inc. just realized that they will never make money with their Anywhere idea! Take a look on big companys that are offering operating systems for most of the avaible plattforms: http://www.symbian.com/

Now, after years, they will try/want to make money in the Amiga Community, but I say forgett it, no way without the developers!

[guru-666]

Guys none of this should matter remember Bill told us he was going to SKIP os4 and come out with OS5..... piece of cake!

It's obvios, the new hardware will run OS5 not os4....... the guys in india have alrady finished OS5... so obvous!

[redrumloa]

This clears up a lot and it only took until April 30, 2007 :roll:

Sucks, no 2 ways about it, this sucks. Not unexpected though. The writting has been on the wall for how long now? Since Garry Hare pronounced OS4 dead in ~04? I got my head handed to my by certain people I won't mention, who are now being sued, and their blind followers for stating the obvious.

Anyhow there are no winners here, only losers. We all lose. We have no OS4, no MOS, no healthy classic market, nothing at all. All we have are memories and an ageing userbase who is slowly dying off :-(

[meega]

And, as I have already posted, Section 33 of the document (that Piru provided the link to) indicates that A Inc are not pursuing money. It looks as if the purpose of the suit is to assert control over, and prevent unauthorised use of, the Amiga trademark. That includes versions of the OS after 3.0.

[guru-666]

@redrumloa
It's not so bad, we have the largest vintage computer community and some of the best emulators. Heck with have aros and amigathlon.  What does the ST cimmunity have?  or the sinclare peopel?  nothing!  the fact that we are even THINKING of producing new hardware is crazy!  There is nothing to run on this OS4 anyway, the amiga hayday is over.  We have so much cool old software to run on owr classic computer what more could we want?

[koaftder]

Is there any part of the deal that Amiga Inc didn't hold up to?

[meega]

koaftder wrote:
Is there any part of the deal that Amiga Inc didn't hold up to?

Actually doing anything themselves....

[Methuselas]

Hey, does anyone know where I can find the link to the News Item about The Early Bird Coupons?? I need to find it. AI took it off their web page and for all intents and purposes, Amiga Inc. commited fraud, taking that money for "Amiga One" boards, when they claim now that there has never been an Amiga One board. I hate to break it to you, Gents, but over a thousand of us gave them 50$ for that coupon for OS4.0, bundled with "Amiga One" boards. That's fraud. Regardless of whether they sent t-shirts or not, they took money for non-existant boards, ones that never even existed.


If I can get enough people involved, I'm tempted to file a class-action suit against Amiga, Inc. for fraud. If I can get 100 people to support it, it's a start. If I can get at least 500 of them, to back me, the Courts have to look into Amiga's business practices over the past few years, to make sure there's been no fraudlent activities, which there have.

Does anyone have that link? I need to read it, before I throw together a depostition. I live in Texas and Austin is a *VERY* liberal city, so most people here don't take kindly to thieves.

[redrumloa]

guru-666 wrote:
Heck with have aros and amigathlon.  What does the ST cimmunity have?  or the sinclare peopel?  nothing!

That is not totally true. Amithlon is illegal and dead. AROS will be the last man standing, but at this time doesn't do much. The Atari ST community has more than you know, believe it or not. Atari did they ethical thing and open sourced everything. There are multiple NG Atari clones and new accelerator cards and such. I'd say the Atari market and even the C64 market is healthier right now than the Amiga market. :crazy:

[Glittering]

The old Amiga Inc was involved in the coupons scam not the current squeaky clean Amiga Inc.

[Methuselas]

Glittering wrote:
The old Amiga Inc was involved in the coupons scam not the squeaky clean Amiga Inc.

That's not how Texas Law works. ;-) This is a class action, civil case. Think Enron, Mate. Point of fact, the person in charge of the new Amiga Inc, is the same person who started the whole coupon scam, with the previous incarnation of Amiga  Inc. The fact that he, as the CEO, knowingly and *WILLINGLY* took money from individual consumers, in excess of 50,000$, yet failed to produce product, is fraud, in Texas Law. No matter how many times he's schelled his company, it's still fraud and any incarnation is still held accountable, 'cos Big Mac is still CEO of the company.

[EDIT] - Oh lest I forget, the Texas Judicial System will also ask Big Mac why he hasn't paid previously, unpaid employees first, *BEFORE* they sold off the companies "IP", 'cos "passing the buck", to avoid court appointed reparations is a *BIG* no, no here.

[Fester]

Methuselas wrote:
Hey, does anyone know where I can find the link to the News Item about The Early Bird Coupons?? I need to find it.

I bleached the t-shirt by accident...

Try http://web.archive.org/web/*/amiga.com

Fester