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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaTechnologies Escom-->Viscorp
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 08:16:54 GMT
- Organization: Efficient Software Internet Service
- Message-ID: <2447.6678T180T1281@es.co.nz>
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- Joern Plewka [am], regarding your message ' AmigaTechnologies Escom-->Viscorp' -
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- >What do you think about AT....sold by ESCOM...bought by Viscorp?
- >It`s not finished jet but it seems to come TRUE soon.
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- >Price: $40mio
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- >I don`t know to be happy or worry about it...
- >Hallo Viscorp, what`s your intention with the Amiga...Settop only!?
-
- It's ominous....
-
- Escom and AT are bussinesses, and as such, are profit-orientated. It makes
- them short sighted, these bussineses. Thats why so many fail - they take
- your money, and give little in return. There is no cycle there - it's a
- downward spiral. The amiga has been mauled for so long that it is very low
- on this spiral, and heading down further. Therefore, escom have moved it
- off to viscorp.
-
- I doubt any of these companies know what to do with the amiga. Sure - some
- of my ideas might be called elitist, or atleast they belong in the
- workstation market. But I disagree; I think it's still early enough to set
- the course of computing for the next 50 years. Only the smarter people out
- there will grasp what I am getting at. Friends tell me the amiga is a way
- of life. It's a philosophy, maybe even to some - a religeon. Is this good ?
- Who knows...
-
- Some things are sure: playing games with the amiga's future will only loose
- these companies money; the amiga is a long term project - short term profit
- is for simpletons; and the amiga 'culture' is under-utilized and
- semi-ignored by the crude 'small-think' of the corporate mind.
-
- Viscorp ? I don't know. They are not saying. If we do not receive a
- suitable prospectus from them for the amiga's future, along with there
- finacial standing, I think we face the end of another sad tale.
-
- If they do not have the vision, I will first buy a clone (because they are
- cheap), then perhaps a BeBox (because they are good).
-
- ...... Brendan
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