They have a legal right to use it as they see fit. They hold a license and despite threats, there has been no legal action by Hyperion.
As more than a few of us have been pointing out since the start of this whole affair, our objections aren't to the
legality of the thing. I haven't given a crap about who
owns the Amiga name since I first got into the Amiga; what I care about is how I see it being applied. It might be
legal for C-USA to call a PC in a fancy case an "Amiga," but that doesn't make people's objections that it has nothing to do with the Amiga any less worthy of consideration.
And given that C-USA is using names closer to the actual original Amiga than any "next-gen" company so far ("1000x" and so on, which they haven't even updated on their site from just plain "1000," where other companies have at least done stuff like "AmigaOne,") it'd be nice to see even
some kind of acknowledgement for that.
This is his passion, this has capture his interest and he can throw himself into it with out the worry of losing everything. His pockets run that deep as his connections run extremely deep world wide. Barry is a different animal then what we have seen since the days of Jack Tramiel.
This is interesting to hear, but if he's
really all that and a bag of chips, I wish he'd put his weight behind something more original. There's still ground to be broken and niches to be carved out in the computer industry, and if Barry is really as good a businessman as some are making him out to be, he could probably do as well or better with a
new product instead of a gussied-up old one. It's an interesting comparison to Tramiel, because he
wasn't one to just sit on his laurels and copy the competition's homework. Hell, he was already up and gone by the time Commodore released its first PC compatible. Would that Barry took more of a lesson from that.
