WHO owns Amiga now? Are they still active??

[persia]

In an auction their would be more interest in the name, which means female friend in Portuguese and Spanish, than the company....

Perhaps an auction would be a viable option.

[klx300r]

The simple answer is that we don't know.

And the sad fact is that with each passing year (and 'owner') the name is worth less and less

so sadly true Nova!
btw, love the new avatar

[orb85750]

In an auction their would be more interest in the name, which means female friend in Portuguese and Spanish, than the company....

Amiga Inc. does not own the word, "Amiga."  They own the trademark for the use of that word  with respect to technology.  If someone else wants to come up with a brand of chocolate bars and call them "Amiga" or a new shampoo called "Amiga," they may lay claim to such a trademark right now without paying Amiga Inc. a penny.  

For better or worse, I think the Amiga trademark still has quite a high value.  I would sell my house for it, but I have a feeling that I would need about 10-20 more such houses!

[dcr8520]

If 50 percent of the community wants Amiga, Inc. to win that case we are in BIG trouble.

100% agree.

We only have to check which part did more for the Amiga platform.

[dcr8520]

Amiga Inc. does not own the word, "Amiga."  They own the trademark for the use of that word  with respect to technology.  If someone else wants to come up with a brand of chocolate bars and call them "Amiga" or a new shampoo called "Amiga," they may lay claim to such a trademark right now without paying Amiga Inc. a penny.  

For better or worse, I think the Amiga trademark still has quite a high value.  I would sell my house for it, but I have a feeling that I would need about 10-20 more such houses!

i never understood very well how a word which appears in a dictionary can have a trademark.. )

[orb85750]

i never understood very well how a word which appears in a dictionary can have a trademark.. )

Apple MacIntosh [TM] to sell dictionary-definition fruit by that name?  Nope.
Apple MacIntosh [TM] to sell (non-dictionary-definition) computers by that name?  Yup.

[freqmax]

Stop breathing Sir!  you are infringing on the respitory process patent

Seems the corporate vaccum has spurred some creativity!, why not continue?

As for the name.. most people don't know about Amiga. So if it's a good machine. Use another name.

[Daff]

The right owner of the Amiga patent can be also... Acer.

[smerf]

Hi.

                                                  Who owns Amiga now?
Seems to be represented by Amiga Inc.  http://www.amiga.com

                                                    Are they still active?
They are very active in the creating of stupid childish games for iphones. ephones, cell phones or whatever you want to call it.

As far as trying to make a good computer, I don't believe anyone in the company has enough talent (or brains),
they are strictly in the process of making simple games that anyone with one or two years of BASIC programming could make. They would be better off establishing a magazine with where you could type in the listing of their games into your computer to play them like they did in the beginning computer years.

smerf

[persia]

Amiga dot Com is worth much more as a Portuguese/Spanish dating service than as a technology company.  Any bankruptcy sale  would result in the domain name being sold for several tens of thousands of dollars and the company and technology for a few cents.  Amiga Inc have registered AmigaInc.com, so they may have contingency plans on selling the domain name to keep functioning.

Amiga Inc. does not own the word, "Amiga."  They own the trademark for the use of that word  with respect to technology.  If someone else wants to come up with a brand of chocolate bars and call them "Amiga" or a new shampoo called "Amiga," they may lay claim to such a trademark right now without paying Amiga Inc. a penny.  

For better or worse, I think the Amiga trademark still has quite a high value.  I would sell my house for it, but I have a feeling that I would need about 10-20 more such houses!

[freqmax]

Just a norty idea..
One could make a public copyright infringement. And thus force the entity that owns it to prove ownership in court. Failure to do so might make the court default to free for anyone?, and if there's someone that holds it activly one has to take the financial slap.

[jsixis]

I read all the posts here before I typed this.

As far as I am concerned no one owns the Amiga. It is dead except for diehards like myself who still use them because they just won't die.

Amiga was a hardware computer system. Anyone can develope for it but there are so few around one would be better off developing hardware for a commodore 64.
You can get an IDE controller, with flash card memory and an ethernet option for the commodore 64 for 200 euros. Try finding that for an Amiga.

As for the "new Amiga OS"  I'll be dead long before they ever get it working like Linux, Macintosh or Windows.

[bloodline]

Just a norty idea..
One could make a public copyright infringement. And thus force the entity that owns it to prove ownership in court. Failure to do so might make the court default to free for anyone?, and if there's someone that holds it activly one has to take the financial slap.

Why not compile your own distribution of AROS and sell it as AmigaOS... see if you get a legal challenge :-)

[boglo]

This may be a stupid question, but who actually owns Amiga now?  Is there still an active company doing anything at all with Amiga,  or is it completely dead?

Barney

Ok so the courts  are in charge of this mess.
So lets do a survey and see who is the fav? And take it up a notch with a prize for those on the winning side. Maybe a gift card or a t-shirt or something from one or more of the dealers out there.
The winners determined by the court case.
Might be fun..Might take a while to find out who the winners are though.. ;-)
boB