🚀 go-pugleaf

Kevin W. Davidson wrote:
> 
> Daniel Spreadbury previously wrote in comp.sys.amiga.applications:
> >Woody Williams (woody@softwood.com) wrote:
> >> In article <829238030.27799@digita.demon.co.uk>, info@digita.demon.co.uk
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Has everyone heard the news that Escom are planning to sell Amiga
> >> > Technologies to Viscorp? (Check out AT`s home page for more info.).
> >> >
> >> > Doesn`t look good.
> >> >
> >> > Mark.
> >>
> >> Looks pretty darn good to us!
> 
> >Well, Woody - would you care to enlighten us as to why this is such good
> >news?
> 
> I remember when Commodore was sold to ESCOM and everybody figured
> that all ESCOM wanted was the trademark and that the Amiga was headed
> right down the tubes. But that didn't happen. Amiga production was
> restarted and Amiga development went ahead. But I said at the time
> that if somebody was going to pay GOOD MONEY for Commodore, then they
> weren't about flush it down the drain.
> 
> Now AT has been sold FOR EVEN MORE MONEY to Visicorp (a company
> FULL of Amiga bigots--if you haven't heard). These guys aren't
> spending $40 million just for the privilege of flushing Amy down
> the toilet either.
> 
> Stay cool.
> 
> Kevin (soft-logik@cup.portal.com)
> 
> >--
> 
> I'm keepin' my hyphen, so there.

This to me sounds like a good thing for the Amiga, somebody atlast has
realises that the Amiga is worth some real money, you don`t imho spend
40 million buying a company that a. the previous owner bought for 10
million(I think) and b. tha has a few bits of technologhy that would be
useful for a set top box and you already have a license for unless you
have some pretty big intentions for the bits that you have not got a
license for, in this case the Amiga computer.

Also the odds are that the Amiga may still appear in Escom shops as they
are one of its present distribution channels. (read the announcement
athttp://www.cucug.org/at/at960411.html)

I`m looking forward to what comes next. :-) 

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