I don't think that a couple of stickers will make these efforts much better than iMica or Ares, (I also don't know what the Aros developers will think about Amiga inc, trying making money thanks to their efforts on Aros).
Timing is everything. When Hyperion and BPlan negotiated with Amiga Inc, AI was dealing from a position of (perceived) strength so they could dictate whatever terms they wanted. I strongly suspect that Amiga Inc is not doing too well after having to pay their lawyers for the very long court case, so Leo's company could afford to play a little hardball. It sucks for Hyperion and bPlan, but that's life.
As far as Cloanto and C64 Forever, wouldn't it be the other way around? Cloanto is using CUSA's IP (in the form of the C64's ROMs), so they'd be the ones needing to get a license. I hope that goes smoother than the current fracas with Hyperion and OSNews, I'd hate to see C64 Forever caught in the same legal sargasso that tied up OS4.
Last edited by CodeSmith on 02-Sep-2010 at 09:44 AM.
amigang wrote: One thing that I think has annoyed a lot of people is the fact that this company has got the Commodore Name and now the Amiga name so easily when companies that the community actually like and support Hyperion, A-cube, A-eon, Cloanto, bplan Genesi, the Aros team etc All have had either legal battles between Amiga Inc over copyrights or had to remove Amiga references from there platform.
I'm sure Acube would of loved to be able to call there machine Amiga440 / Amiga460, I'm sure bplan would of loved to been able to call MorphOS, the AmigaOS. And Aros I believe was called something Amiga but it had to removed due to legal issues.
Even Cloanto a great Amiga company that developed software and supported the Amiga for years recently had a legal battle over the use of the Amiga Forever name, to me they and all these other companies who have put money into the Amiga and the community have stayed with the community though the tough time and the hard time they all deserve the Amiga name a lot more than this start up company and I think this is why you are getting a lot more abuse and a tougher time than perhaps you deserve, it now time for CommodoreUSA to prove to us they deserve the name and let see what they do with it and I just hope they dont do damage to the name or to AmigaOS
One more thing now I think about how come CommodoreUSA dont do a deal with Cloanto on there C64 forever and Amiga Forever programs.
For the attempted censor of Cloanto's Amiga Forever, I just bought my copy of Amiga Forever 2010.
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