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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Viscorp, Amiga, and the future.
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 22:40:24 -0700
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- >On 12 Apr 1996, MicroTech wrote:
- >> Actually, if you followed the FIRST buyout, Viscorp was one of the
- >> interested parties when this all started, and was mentioned as a licensee
- >> almost immediately after Escom made the purchase.
- >
- >This is what makes the whole thing weird to me. They immediately pursued a
- >licensing agreement upon Escom's acquisition, and now they buy the whole
- >thing for 3 or 4 times (Don't remember...) what Escom paid.
- >I guess I wait again, but I've got to believe these guys won't totally
- >screw us all. I mean, nobody from AmiTech has been heard from, but it
- >seems like if they were losing their jobs somebody might be pissed enough
- >to let us in on something.
- >
- >Besides, doesn't Jason Compton live in Evanston? VIScorp better watch it,
- >or he may have to get on over there and open up a can of whoop-ass ;).
- >
- >Later
- >
- >Morgan MacArthur macartmo@ece.orst.edu
- >Oregon State University http://www.ece.orst.edu/~macartmo
- >"You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more
- > undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation." -Leon Bruckman, X-Files
-
- I have heard from several people at Amiga Technologies and none have lost
- their jobs!
-
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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