Anyway, while I can hardly approve of the apparent use of a trademark/logo/whatever which belongs to someone else (and in any case, this seems to be in question - hence the use of the word "apparent"); RISC OS continues to have much more serious problems than someone threating something of although historical import, little practical relevance to the present, and a diversion from solving much more immediate problems.

P.S. the smiley in the above was TIB's comments system, not intended by me.

This is I would suggest the final warning shot to all those holding the cards to RISC OS that unless they cooperate and coordinate their efforts predators aplenty will be only too happy to snap up the hard work and long-held hopes of thousands of users.

If you want cooperation, which indeed _is_ a real immediate problem, then that needs to start with users, and not just users telling RO companies what to do.

Anyway, it says:

"Genuine Acorn computers only run RISC OS". Well, that's clearly not true, since you can run ARM Linux, NetBSD, and even Windows (under a PC Card), not to mention things you might run under emulation.

"Beware FAKE imitations".

As opposed to what? Real imitations? Of machines produced 10 years ago?

Paul, for goodness sake, get a grip on reality.

The statement that "Genuine Acorn Computers run RISC OS natively And are powered by ARM Processors" is therefore simplistic at best.

RISC iX has a space, btw, just like RISC OS. This is extra exciting when you try and run oldish autoconfed stuff, 'cause it can't cope with a space in the system name returned from uname.

My understanding is that they are nothing more than pc box shifters.

Sorry bad terminology on my part. All I was trying to do was get accross the fact that this company are selling pc/windoze type machines and not anything related to RISC OS.

A bog-standard box shifter won't easily be able to do laptops - you need a few more resources to do that.

Actually that's not necessary unless you intend to build your own boxes. I have a laptop named Vega+ from some Danish box shifter called Vega. If I search for the model number on the box I find at least 5 "manufacturers" of that model, all of which have the exact same specs as my computer and are in fact the same with a different label attached on the back of the screen.

Gulli: Well, indeed. But it's a bit more difficult to source them than it is the parts for a PC which you can just buy from Dabs or similar.

Lots of people seem to be over-reacting to this. It still remains to be seen if they're using the old logo and such legally. If they are, there's not a lot anybody can do with it.

Well, indeed. But it's a bit more difficult to source them than it is the parts for a PC which you can just buy from Dabs or similar.

"Acorn Computers to be reborn as laptop maker"

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/05/acorn-computers-to-be-reborn-as-laptop-maker/

It doesn't seem the new Acorn (fAcorn*, if you will) are particularly well versed about their product, and they are just rebadged far eastern imports. As though there was any doubt about that.

Their flyer is quite nice though, I might take a scan of it later if anyone is interested.

http://www.acorncomputer.co.uk/reseller for more info, though not much.

Al.

*BTW, I hereby claim rights to the terms "fAcorn" and "fakeorn" ;p

Good news though as a lot of complaints don't even get taken forward and investigated (even CustomPC magazine ran the story this month)....

John

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