#Buy amiga os 3.9 Pc

You have to know where to look and what to look for. ItвЂ™s just a type of information ordinary people wouldnвЂ™t know where to find (myself included). Just to underline: this information have never been secret or anything of the sorts. It caused quite a stir online when I published the name of the owner last year (both on this blog and Amiga Disrupt on Facebook). Very few knew the identity of the party now in possession of the Commodore patent portfolio until quite recently. People have focused so much on the Amiga computer and branding aspect of Commodore, that we often neglect that the true value of such a giant was never the end-product, but the intrinsic values of their patents and technological inventions. When Commodore fell, the vultures moved in quickly. Gateway and Escom both tried to save themselves using the Amiga patents, but they failed

#Buy amiga os 3.9 Pc

They own the patents for pretty much everything we know as a PC today, and donвЂ™t need to compete. вЂњBig BlueвЂќ havenвЂ™t вЂњworkedвЂќ in the true sense of the word since they started licensing out PC as a platform. They remain one of the richest companies in the world, but spend their time tinkering with super-computers and science experiments. IBM is more or less the archetypical example of this. Large companies use patent portfolios in combination with their insurance. Patents are valuable because they represent repeated income and a level of financial security unline ordinary currency. So while graphic, the piece of meat in this analogy held an estimated value of a billion dollars. The Commodore legacy was reduced to a piece of meat and thrownto the wolves, each ripping into its patents left and right. So all that buying and selling we saw in the 90s, with Amiga changing hands left and right, had nothing to do with saving the Amiga. Because, and here we get into the nasty parts: for an already established competitor, a dead tech company has one asset and one asset only: namely their patent-portfolio. So from a PC companyвЂ™s perspective, getting rid of the Amiga and butchering Commodore for patents was a spectacular win. Major players though couldnвЂ™tВ care less about these factors, not unless they align with their own needs. The first is what consumers consider valuable things like the products they make, how much money is in the bank, the state of their inventory, good partners and retailers - all points of importance when running a business. What people often forget is that tech-companies have two types of currencies.

And boy did Commodore fall.Д¬ommodore ranked side-by side with the biggest names in the industry Years of mismanagement, poor leadership, if not outright shameful, had taken its toll on the once fierce giant And as the saying goes: the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Long story short, back in the early 90s Commodore, a company that for close to two decades ranked as a giant of computing, collapsed.

For those that want to dig into the gory details spanning three decades, there is always the Amiga documentation project. I hope all parties get their act together and find a way to co-exist. The gist of the post here is not to dig into the details (also known as вЂњthe rabbit holeвЂќ in the community), but to give a short recount of the highlights leading up to the present situation вЂ“ and to underline that people who still care for the system, the Amiga community, is beyond fed-up with this. The whole Amiga Inc scandal (which I believe ordered production of OS4 to begin with?), Eyetech, H&P, the loss of the Amiga OS 3.9 source code. : To make the case even remotely understandable for people that have never read about it before, I have left out a ton of details. So while IвЂ™m loving DelphiвЂ™s 24th birthday festivities, I find the ongoing lawsuits so amazing that I have to write a few words. To be honest I also think that the case itself serves as a warning to companies and developers in general, because this truly is the best example of how bad things can go if you donвЂ™t manage your patents and rights properly. Delphi and C++ builder developers will probably not have much interest in this, but as far as general IT news goes, this one is attracting interest far and wide due to the sheer absurdity involved.