On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Joel Ewy wrote:
> This brings to mind the fact that (at least the first of) the
> Amiga patents should be expiring within the next two or three years.
> This should mean something to Amiga hobbyists, shouldn't it? I've
> seen people implementing 6502 cores in FPGAs these days. Surely the
> Amiga custom chips would be good candidates for similar treatment when
> Gateway no longer has the right to sue somebody to make them quit.
> (Gateway still owns the patents even though they no longer own the
> Amiga trademark. What they plan to do with them in the next couple
> years -- aside from keeping others from making good use of them -- is
> beyond me.)
Aren't the designs, which are what really matter here, still copyrighted?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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