On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 24 MILLION Euro? FOR WHAT? Commodore means NOTHING commercially anymore.
> It's a god damn pyramid scheme at this point. Each new owner hoping to
> find an even more naive buyer than they were.
But consider,...
Lotus sued Adam Osborne's Paperback Software out of existence,
because his Visi-Clone smelled like their Visi-Clone.
If Adam were to have been just a little faster plunking down
about $10K for the residual debris of the IP of VisiCalc,
then he could have REVERSED that suit.
Likewise, Novell was not interested in the assets of DRI,
other than the Copyright ownershio of CP/M, and hence immunity
from IP persecution from MICROS~1.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Thu Dec 30 2004 - 17:15:20 GMT