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Re:Amiga Forever by bni on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:19AM (#34105459)
Also Cloanto say they own the ROMs, but they can't prove this.

I think Gateway, and then Acer owns it, but who knows.

I used https://aminet.net/package/util/misc/GrabKickDisk to grab ROMs from my Amigas. But you can just as well grab them from random internet site, check the checksum and be happy and guilt free about it.

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Re:Amiga Forever by AndrejXY on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:34PM (#34241693)
"Who knows?" Playing the FUD game?

Acer never owned anything Amiga. The copyrights and trademarks can easily be looked up, while the patents expired before Acer even bought Gateway.

https://www.copyright.gov/ https://www.uspto.gov/

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Re:Amiga Forever by bni on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:31AM (#34243369)
No FUD. Nothing I have seen convince me Cloanto own the ROMs. Trademark on "Amiga" got nothing to do with that.
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Re:Amiga Forever by AndrejXY on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:26AM (#34424594)
You are right in that this has nothing to do with trademarks. Copyright assignments can be researched on this US Government site (here a sample output for "Cloanto"):

https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V3626D795 https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V9946D337 https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V9943D475

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