By Skr

By retrophilion

In saying this, I'm not conversely endorsing Peri Fractic's efforts, although they seem at least slightly more serious and at least he's a Commodore enthusiast with some track record who's (apparently) put some meaningful capital at risk to launch products directly related to 1980s Commodore. I love retro 80s computers, had all the Amigas in the 80s and 90s and currently have a collection of well over a hundred different models of 80s computers - but I'm also an experienced tech industry business exec having founded multiple startups and taken them from zero to multi-million dollar valuations and hundreds of employees - and at the end of the day, I doubt any of these efforts are going to make any meaningful money (meaning rounded to the nearest million dollars, the net profits after costs will likely be zero).

Ever since Commodore went under I've noticed a bizarre affliction seems to haunt all Commodore and Amiga legal rights. Everyone who gets involved with them ends up wasting money fighting in court over essentially worthless rights. It's like some form of temporary insanity. It makes zero sense and even after chatting with some of these people (who all seem reasonably rational in brief casual conversation), I have no idea what causes it.

Anyway, assuming these Italian opportunists are similarly afflicted, this will devolve into yet another pointless multi-year Commodore rights quagmire in a multi-decade string of them. Whatever rights the Italians may still hold (if any) are probably not even for the computer category and may have been canceled or already expired in many major jurisdictions. However, it may not matter because the Italian legal system is also well-known to be the circus clown car of byzantine, capriciously arbitrary legal systems - so I recommend ignoring this slow-mo train wreck. Fighting over Commodore rights is like mud wrestling with a pig. No one ever wins but you still get filthy - and the pig enjoys it.

By markran

@BodyLotion Agreed! Not sure what the problem is here, they should be uniting plus they're focusing on different products anyway.

By slider1983

By hwertz

By Venivik

By Fanboy_Destroyer

This mess is worth remembering next time someone gets annoyed that the big players make "unfriendly" moves to protect their trademarks. Nintendo, Sega et al are no angels; but it does seem (I'm not a lawyer!) that international and local trademark laws do bind their hands somewhat and force then to aggressively defend them against use by others.

By Grackler

By Aiodensghost