snorg wrote:

Who actually owns the rights to Amiga? Last I heard the company had changed ownership so many times it was like a joint passed around at a Phish concert.

I'm curious, because I wonder what it would take $$ wise for the people that love it to purchase the rights and just open-source the thing. My guess is it wouldn't be cheap, somewhere in the range of 5-10 million.

Open source what thing?

vladstamate wrote:

snorg wrote:

Who actually owns the rights to Amiga? Last I heard the company had changed ownership so many times it was like a joint passed around at a Phish concert.

I'm curious, because I wonder what it would take $$ wise for the people that love it to purchase the rights and just open-source the thing. My guess is it wouldn't be cheap, somewhere in the range of 5-10 million.

Open source what thing?

Any/all IP associated with the Amiga relating to hardware and software.

As recent as Feb 2015:

In the last few months, Cloanto started distributing Amiga System Software - the publisher traditionally refers to it as "Workbench" instead of "AmigaOS" - on CF cards, Floppy Disks and as a downloadable Workbench Disk Image Pack. Approached by Amiga-News, Cloanto's Michael Battilana confirmed that the company owns the copyrights for all works created by the Commodore/Amiga companies up to 1993.

From here: http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html

Seeing that those guys are actually doing something with it, it seems unlikely they might want to sell.

As long as they are doing something with it, I guess that's all that matters.
Sorry if this was a blindingly obvious thing, probably should have Googled it
a bit harder.

You know, after watching the "Deathbed Vigil" that Dave Haynie made, I can't help but think that there was either criminal negligence or gross incompetence (or both) on the part of Commodore management.