@WolfToTheMoon

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Offcourse they fear new competition. In a market as small as this one, every customer counts. Not only this, but any newcomers will be deciding between an Commodore Amiga running AROS and AmigaOne running OS4... How many of those newcomers will go for the 2000 euro Aone not capable of running anything else other than OS4... not many. If any....

Well, me for one. A 1000 euro Sam460ex, actually, but still. A PC running Ubuntu doesn't bring anything I don't already have to the table. A Power Architecture machine running Amiga OS 4 brings the Amiga OS to the table.

@Hammer

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Does AROS breach United States copyright law?

If Amiga Inc license an Amiga branded product running it, then that act will be in breach of the terms of the Agreement, being an OS exhibiting a substantially similar software architecture. If CommodoreUSA sell their 'PC-64' running it, with no involvement from Amiga Inc, then no, not as far as I know.
After all, ClusterUK has been selling PCs with AROS on for a while now, with no legal consequences.


@Vidarh

Well, its a small legal risk, yes. But I was also thinking of the risk of giving a bad impression. To a newcomer like me, Amiga Inc doesn't look like an entirely reputable operation, and from what other AW.net members have discovered about Barry Altman's business history, he'd be better off avoiding even the suggestion of shadiness in his business partners, at least until after he's established his PC-64s in the marketplace and proved his reliability.


Regardless, I agree Hyperion would be better advised to go after the Amiga Inc side and leave the Commodore revival side of the operation well alone. After all, there's no real conflict between a company selling a 'PC=64' and another selling a 'PowerAmiga'.