| From: | Richard Friend |
| Date: | 9 Apr 2001 at 19:50:37 |
| Subject: | Re: And so it begins...... |
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Hall <No_good@jgen.fsnet.co.uk>
>
> Gateway bought it for patents, no other reason. They never realised there
> was such an active community left. Hence why Amiga Inc. only have licence
> for the patents, Gateway still own them.
>
I heard they'd bought it at the last minute because another PC giant was
interested and they thought "Well, if they want it then it must be worth
something!" Hence the statement "What we've got is a big box labelled
'stuff', we're not sure what's in it yet.........!"
Yes, they were flooded in the first few days by emails from Amiga users, so
much so that their servers went down and yes they do still own most of the
patents. Then again, they had enough time during their ownership to sort out
the good 'stuff' from the crap 'stuff'. That is, the money making patents
from the users!
Not that I'm bitter.....oh no!
Richy.
ICQ 18894975
http://www.aminutz.org.uk
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