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- From: gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaTechnologies Escom-->Viscorp
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 19:51:57 GMT
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- >>>I don't think there is anything to worry about. Nobody spends $40M on
- >>>something and then throws it away. AT and VIScorp will be mutually
- >>>benefical to each other.
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- >Paying $40 million US for the sole rights to use the Amiga technology in
- >their set-top boxes is nothing if they want it for them and themselves
- >only! This could be the return of Commodore Greed. Look at it this way,
- >VISCorp could have stuck with a licence agreement, constantly giving
- >money to Escom/AT and also see them licensing the technology out to other
- >competitors.. now for $40 million they will not have to pay anymore to
- >anyone and they don't have to license out the technology if they don't
- >want to. If sales go good, they easily make back the $40 million and
- >then reap in the profits themselves from that point on.
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- That's true enough. Don't they need computers, and software developers
- as well as set top boxes though?
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- >>Besides that, the deal is even final yet.
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- >True but I hope it goes through.. Escom will can AT otherwise.
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- Maybe.
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- Gary Caine Member: Team AMIGA
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