On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Bryan Pope wrote:
> And thusly Vintage Computer Festival spake:
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> >
> > > One thing that has not endeared Tulip to the Commodore community was an
> > > attempt to grind down on trademark enforcement. First it was the
> > > Commodore name and logo, and then the system ROMs, and there is also some
> > > argument over the IP of the 64 itself. Apparently a collabourator called
> > > Ironstone is developing a new 64 of their own, separate from the C-1 being
> > > created by Jeri Ellsworth, which is nearing completion. There is worry that
> > > Ironstone/Tulip will clamp down on new hardware development as a result.
> >
> > So these people are fighting over a market worth, at most, $10,000? I
> > think they've already spent two times that in legal fees.
>
> I think it's a little more then that. At the recent Commodore Expo in
> Louisville, KY, Greg Nacu (distributor of the IDE64) sold the nine IDE64's
> he brought for $150 each plus all the Micromys PS/2 adapters for $40 apiece.
>
> LOADSTAR sold quite a few of the email disk subscriptions for $35 each.
Ok, sorry. $10,000 + $1,350 + $800 (I'll assume 20 sold at $40 each) +
$1000 + $5,000 bonus = about $9,500 net negative when they factor in all
the expense.
Can you put a dollar amount on bad will generated by stupid decisions by a
clueless executive team who thinks they can milk the C= name for all it's
worth (which is still less than what they've already invested in it)?
> That doesn't include all of the used stuff being sold there...
>From a purely hobbyist pursuit, there is some money to be made, anywhere
from pocket change to one month's mortgage. But I'm talking about Tulip
basing a business model around this. Are they stupid or just dumb?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Fri Jun 18 2004 - 13:58:34 BST