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Poster | Thread | cgutjahr
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Re: Cloanto acquire Amiga Inc Trademark Posted on 3-Jun-2021 17:27:42
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But what if Hyperion lost the case. They lose amigaos4 as well and it's sold to Aeon.
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The only thing Hyperion owns is Reaction. The rest is licensed from Amiga Inc. (Trademarks, OS3 code) and a whole bunch of external developers (all the new code in OS4).
If Hyperion loses the court case, the only thing they could sell to A-EON is Reaction. For everything else, you'd have to negotiate new licenses with Amiga Corporation and all the developers. Which brings us back to "other entities' code" and "I know the amiga.org guy!".
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No, it would be just more of them same. Trevor Dickinson is the guy who financed Hyperion's original lawsuit against Amiga Inc, he's a Hyperion shareholder and creditor and he's also the guy who's been refusing to shut them down for years. And once he acquired Exec SG, he immediately put Ben's old lapdog in charge of the project. None of that sounds like a fresh start to me.
Plus I don't see anything that would convince me that A-EON/Amigakit are good at project management or leadership. Tabor has been announced in 2015, LibreOffice in 2012, old press releases routinely vanish from their websites, they remove all occurences of "AmigaOne" from their wiki while claiming it didn't happen, delist Hyperion from their webshop without explaining it etc.
They basically just throw money at things, and then try to recoup that from users. Sometimes they get lucky (Hans), sometimes not so much (purchases of Aladdin 4D and Octamed, Xena...) |
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Poster | Thread | NutsAboutAmiga
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Re: Cloanto acquire Amiga Inc Trademark Posted on 3-Jun-2021 17:05:36
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The question becomes does Aeon like to inherit all the legal problems Hyperion has? ot buy only stuff that is considered additions or replacements, and what % of the OS can be considered clean room.
With out Hyperion they can’t use name AmigaOS or Workbnech, or AmigaONE, they need to rebrand everything. Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 03-Jun-2021 at 05:11 PM. Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 03-Jun-2021 at 05:07 PM.
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