| [News] Amiga-News.de interviewing Ben Hermans | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 19-Feb-2003 22:38 GMT by Whatever (Edited on 2003-02-20 14:16:56 GMT by Christophe Decanini) | 86 comments
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Amiga-News.de have interviewed Ben Hermans. Read the complete interview here.
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| Posted by takemehomegrandma on 20-Feb-2003 09:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (SqMonk):
> Why would "anybody" do that? Since this wouldn't stop the development of
> Amiga OS, Hyperium would still have the right to code Amiga and
> that "somebody else", with the Amiga name, would be sued for copyright
> infringement for using it as the name of unrelated code.
> There are many similar UNIX OSs but they don't try to steal each other's
> name. Just because MorphOs has a similar gui, doesn't mean it should have the
> Amiga name. I'm not sure why some people are obsessed with this.
As Xeyes said, you're mixing copyright up with trademarks. And it was only a hypothetical question (not an obsession); if Hyperion has an exclusive right to develop AmigaOS4.x, and a *legally new owner* of the "Amiga" brand chooses another path to go regarding the OS and to call that "AmigaOS 5.x", in which position will Hyperion find themselves then with their OS4?
AFAIR, Hyperions rights are limited to OS4.x, and Amiga Inc have said that *they* will develop OS5 themselves, inhouse (but I don't know if I remember this correctly). And besides, Amiga Inc has allready proven that you can call just about anything "Amiga", even products that hasn't got the slightest connection to Amiga whatsoever ... |
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