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LETTER FROM SOMEONE WHO SEEMS TO KNOW
from Rick Balkins
(aka Wildstar128@yahoo.com)
[NOTE:] Rick responded on Homestead
Maillist to some of my ranting and
raving. --DMM
Hello Rev. Dave,
I will have to say that I have
talked with Tulip/2L International. I
also have talked with Ironstone
Partners as well. I have talked with
them and none of them has any
intentions to shut down Commodore fan
sites and sites supporting Commodore.
Though they will defend the trademarks
they own (or have license to in the
case of Ironstone Partners).
To get you up to date, Ironstone
Partners will be in charge of
production of Commodore branded
products for the Commodore 8-bits. Due
to a non-competition agreement,
Tulip/2L International will not be
"directly" producing products for the
Commodore 8-bits. Now, to make so e
clarification about how Tulip will be
operating the "Commodore" brand: Tulip
will be channeling the Commodore brand
through their subsidiary 2L
International as Commodore is a
consumer brand and 2L International is
the part of Tulip developing consumer
branded products. Get me so far ?
Let's now take a look at Tulip's
history in a nutshell.
Tulip was a company founded back
in the mid to late 1980s which was
traditionally a company who's market
is "Business to Business" (B2B)
marketing. In short, Tulip has been a
company which produced computer
products to business and education
sector (as explained to me by Harro
Tillema of 2L International who worked
for the parent company Tulip until the
beginning of the year and now is at 2L
International).
Tulip had no consumer brand market
until they formed 2L International and
acquired the international rights of
Commodore from ESCOM after Gateway
acquired the AMIGA rights from ESCOM.
It was not until around 1997 that
Tulip entered the consumer market.
Harro used to be in charge of the
press releases of Tulip until the
beginning of this year when he
transferred over to 2L International.
He did see the press release before it
was posted and noted to the Tulip
Press Release department the parts
that would cause concern and warned
them of it. Well, it happened exactly
like he expected when they posted it
anyway. Guess the guy who wrote the
press release got an important lesson.
Harro Tillema gave them warning about
possible responses.
Now to give you an idea of who
Harro Tillema is, other then a main
individual at 2L International /
Tulip. He is a Commodore users and is
a member of the HCC Commodore User's
Group in the Netherlands. He also
seems to be a very nice fellow and
gave me plenty of clarifications. He
also liked my comments which drew upon
many good points as well as voicing
concerns in a way so they can work
things out.
Remember, Commodore wasn't really
that much different from Tulip/2L
International. They both a
corporations. The company does consist
of former employees of Commodore from
the European sector. I hope this helps
you to understand the company a little
more.
Ironstone Partners is a company
which does consist of a fellow
Commodore coder from the 1980s, Darren
Melbourne who knows Commodore. This
has relieved many of my concerns that
this was a corporate entity which has
no connection with Commodore in any
sense.
Rick Balkins
wildstar128@yahoo.com