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From:Don Cox
Date:22 Jun 2001 at 22:47:43
Subject:Re: Stop!!!!

On 22-Jun-01, Matt Sealey wrote:

>> Yeah, I agree. I had that thought in the back of my skull. I'm glad
>> there will be a new officially sanctioned desktop.
>
> Personally I wish they'd decided they wanted a desktop 18 months ago
> to save us (as I said at the start of my rant) another 18 month
> development cycle that we have to wait for..

Even if they had decided that, they had (and still have) venture
capitalists to deal with. Bill and fleecy are not free agents, they
have to get approval of their plans from the guys whose money they are
spending.

The PDA portable software market is something you could sell to
investors. The AmigaOne isn't, but somebody (presumably fleecy) had the
bright idea of calling a desktop Amiga a "home server" - which does open
up a possibly profitable market. I imagine they had to sell that idea
quite hard to the money guys, and I guess (pure guesswork) that this
happened between the "50,000 copies of 3.9" and the "we are gong to do
OS 4" stages.

Did the Florida dentists lose all their money?

Regards



Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net

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