• Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12075 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > with Amiga Inc. no longer owning the rights to AmigaOS

    Right now they still own these up to including v3.1 at least, as far as I can see.

    > who would buy Amiga Inc.

    I doesn't seem the company itself is up for sale. From Pluritas LLC's press release:

    "Amiga Inc. [...] is also actively seeking investment capital to fund the ongoing development of their enabling technologies"

    Of course, once they actually sell their Amiga assets they'd have to rename themselves afterwards, for instance back to KMOS (or alternatively go for an "Amiga" trademark license from the new owner).

    > fund the development of new computers to run MorphOS2.x on and name
    > them new Amiga computer models.

    That could be problematic because the buyer would replace Amiga Inc. as a party in both the contracts with Commodore USA and with Hyperion. According to the press release, Commodore USA has an *exclusive* license to the trademark for their keyboard computers. Admittedly, that would still leave non-keyboard "Amiga" computers as a possibility for the new owner to market them with MorphOS. But that's where the contract with Hyperion and its "Substantially Similar Software Architecture" clause (pages 3 and 25) may kick in regarding MorphOS and thus prohibit a new "Amiga" computer for MorphOS.
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