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Old 05-05-2012, 01:56 PM   #16
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Default Re: Amiga Case Designer Faces Intimidation
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A "friendly request" is a legal maneuver.
Not if you're not a lawyer.. ;-) (Or Tony Soprano... I think people watch too much T.V.)

It could just be...
wait for it..

A friendly request..

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This is reeling the foot back. The next step is a swift attorney to the balls.
That all depends on whether or not something is done about the friendly request and whether or not there actually is anything wrong...

As far as I know, the person stating that wasn't the president of the company. He wasn't an attorney for the company.

Sounds like a friendly request to me...

I grew up around lawyers; that wasn't even slightly intimidating.. ;-)

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Old 05-05-2012, 02:01 PM   #17
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I would've just told them to piss off, if you're not actually selling the thing with Amiga branding...
No of course not.

It's for illustration purposes only, to give people an idea of what they can put on it if they want to, I don't sell Amiga branded stuff but if they don't want to see it then fine, I'll leave ACube, AROS, Linux, OS4 on and take them off if it offends them too
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It's been removed following the friendly request.
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Old 05-05-2012, 02:05 PM   #19
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It's been removed following the friendly request.


As a related side, that's a beautiful case you've made there..

I've been pretty into my original Amigas, but that case, and if they come out with Natami before too long.... Hmmm..

And I can print my own stickers.. ;-)

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Old 05-05-2012, 02:06 PM   #20
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As far as I know, the person stating that wasn't the president of the company. He wasn't an attorney for the company.

Sounds like a friendly request to me...

I grew up around lawyers; that wasn't even slightly intimidating.. ;-)
He's one of two known personnel for CUSA (the other being Barry himself) and the general PR guy for the company; moreover, his threat was groundless posturing, as any basic research into the project would have shown (let alone actual knowledge of TheDaddy's project from - get this - being involved in the community. I haven't even been following this project and I knew he wasn't selling it Amiga-branded, geez,) and he wasn't the person to be making it in the first place, as CUSA does not own or enforce the Amiga trademarks, they merely license them.

And as has been pointed out several times in both threads, a real friendly request would have been a private note to TheDaddy, not territorial pissing on a public forum. It might not have been a formal legal threat, but it was douchey and needlessly aggressive.
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Old 05-05-2012, 02:11 PM   #21
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his threat.
What threat???
It was not, in any way, a threat....

It was a comment..
It was handled..
What's the big deal?

Some people love drama..

But - and I am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

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Old 05-05-2012, 02:18 PM   #22
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What threat???
It was not, in any way, a threat....
A public statement of perceived trademark infringement on the Internet is a takedown threat. That's not difficult to understand, it's been SOP for over-aggressive and under-qualified takedown hounds for years now. If it were not intended as a threat, it would have been sent privately, as is appropriate for this kind of communication. Instead, Leo resorted to stomping and making noise publically in an attempt to make an example of a community hobbyist without having to go so far as to take action, because he doesn't have the grounds to do so. That's why I'm actually a bit disappointed in TheDaddy for complying, because this is exactly what Leo intended to happen.

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But - and I am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Huh?
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Old 05-05-2012, 02:23 PM   #23
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Beautiful work TheDaddy, my sincere congratulations!

I hope some day it can be used with Natami or FPGA Arcade.
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Huh?
It's a movie quote..



Yes, I'm stuck in the 80s...

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Well, nothing wrong with that, I just don't get how it relates to the topic...

Anyway, I'm not much for keyboard cases generally, but hot damn is that a sleek design.
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Old 05-05-2012, 02:43 PM   #26
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It's been removed following the friendly request.
I like to handle things with humor, so I would edit your video and put BIG BLACK CENSORED on top of the Amiga logo!
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Thanks for sharing your photos and video. I think it is a beautiful case.

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Old 05-05-2012, 02:56 PM   #28
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Quite right too. If they let someone put any Amiga branding on a replica case, we could end up with some two-bit company slapping it on overpriced generic PCs.

Oh wait...
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@Darrin

Maybe you should edit the topic name before they whine about the word A****.

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Old 05-05-2012, 03:05 PM   #30
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I think what we need is for OSNews to do a feature on the project and mention this incident
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