Midgets Go to War: Genesi sues Amiga Inc.

[Kees]

In a comment on ann.lu, Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco confirmed that Genesi SARL has taken legal action against Amiga Inc. because of an alleged breach of contract. Says Genesi:

"MorphOS IP is 100% legal. Any concerns or questions can be e-mailed to us directly. All suggestions to the contrary are complete FUD. Neither, Amiga Inc. or any of the AmigaOS4 signatories have any legally supportable evidence to the contrary. Having said that, Genesi has taken legal action against Amiga Inc. in Federal Court (Washington State) for breach of contract (FACT). We are expecting a favorable result (OPINION)."

Source:  http://www.morphos-news.de/

Editor's note: At this point, we don't know the exact details of the lawsuit. We'll keep you posted.

[jumpship]

eh? wha..?

I didn't know that they had a contract between them to breach? :-?

we'll keep you posted.

Please do!! :-)

[Kees]

This small, tiny and extreme little computer community does NOT need things like this.

Its almost funny ...  (note: almost)   :-(

[redrumloa]

Breech of contract is new to me, but Gensi said they filed a lawsuit a long time ago. Too bad this won't be on CourtTV  :-o

Midgets go to War

 :roflmao:

[jumpship]

@nOMAAN

I agree, this is likley to split the communnity even further, maybe push people out of the scene completley.

[Kees]

Yeah ... its seriously a sad thing ...

I really wonder what Bill $ wants to achieve with this (IMO) lame action.

And i still have to see if its really true ...

[redrumloa]

Its almost funny ... (note: almost)

(note personal opinion that means nothing except my personal opinion)
It is funny IMO, Amiga Inc asked for it. They threatened and threatened and threatened. They also accused their competetion of all kinds of things, but then either didn't have the balls or the money to put up, so they just shut up.

Now breach of contract issue is new to me. Amiga Inc refusing DE to Gensi?
(/personal opinion off)

[MarkTime]

@jumpship

I DISAGREE, this type of activity is entertainment, and exactly why most of us are still here.  Perhaps it will increase the community's size.  As for being fractured, well...every community is fractured, its kind of akin to hearding chickens.

I just wish it had been a class action lawsuit by the club members who had their money stolen from them, and not Genesi SARL for some ancient contract.

This is very good news for Amiga, Inc...now they have upgraded their excuse for failure a bit, and it sounds more reasonable.

"we would have delivered t-shirts, but genesi handed us our !@#$@ on a stick"

[Kees]

@ red

That are lame actions too ... but Bill Buck could be the better man by not playing the same game ... i think that would give him and his company more credit

Sueing AI won'thelp him in any way ... it'll prolly make things even worse.

[Jose]

Well, depends on the result.
I remember sometime ago, someone said they had evidence that MOS illegaly used the sources or something. But now it's seems that was not a valitd prove. That or  this is just more FUD...

[Kees]

I remember sometime ago, someone said they had evidence that MOS illegaly used the sources or something. But now it's seems that was not a valitd prove. That or this is just more FUD...

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think the illegal code was deleted and rewritten by the MOS team.

[jumpship]

@MarkTime
I am not saying that Ainc don't have thier faults, they have made thier share of mistakes, have put thier feet in some very deep doggie do-do and have caused rifts in the comunity, but IMHO this is a case of looking for trouble, rather then just tripping over it.

Still, I have made some very bad errors in jugment in the past, so I can't critasise either AmigaINC or Genesi!

I will just wait and see how this plays out now...

[zacman]

>I really wonder what Bill $ wants to achieve with
>this (IMO) lame action.

bbrv announced that they will post more details on
morphos-news.de when the judgment is reached
this week.

[JurassicCamper]

Its not about winning or loosing.

This has been going on for months.

Its about Amiga's assits being frozen while they are sued, and financially killing them.

(No T-shirts / Rebates issued etc)

He cant have Amiga so he doesnt want anyone else to have it either.

...my 2p worth of speculation (cover my back so he doesnt sue me)

[System]

Guys,

Keep in mind here that we have absolutely no details other than the fact that it's happening.  As such -- despite your intuition as the Amiga community -- you cannot make any real judgements based on facts.  We do not know why Genesi did it.  We don't know that it's a bad thing.

In short, before you all go bonkers as usual, take a minute to think about the fact that you're acting on heresay and emotion (and in some cases religious fervor) at this point, not facts.

Let the companies play their cards.  We aren't being invited to watch, nor should we be.