| From: | Donovan Reeve |
| Date: | 4 Sep 99 at 14:38:20 |
| Subject: | Re: Collas Out?! |
On 05-Sep-99, Rick Hodger flashed:
>I watched as Donovan Reeve hammered "Re: Collas Out?!" out on their
>keyboard...
>[SNIP]
>> Obviously something came up rather suddenly. What it was, we don't know
>> for sure but I highly doubt it will effect the course of Amiga much.
>> However, whatever happened, Amiga (and we) lost a great spark-plug and
>> a wonderful guy. It certainly is sad to see him go, for whatever reason.
>I was forwarded an e-mail (from a usually reliable person) about the entire
>thing.
>Basically it goes along the lines of, Microsoft + Gateway got wind of what
>Jim Collas / Amiga Inc were planning for the new machine and panicked.
>Microsoft threatened Gateway in their usual manner and Gateway were forced
>to ask Jim Collas to leave (part of this "deal" of not being fired was for
>him to sell all his shares). Now Gateway have control they plan to use the
>Amiga name to do nothing but release a set-top box (Hence the
>convergence/webtv style patents).
>Again tho, this may be a rumour...all the Microsoft/Gateway business seems a
>bit much, but who knows?
>--
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