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The on-going Amiga sale saga
Some good news at last!
The following is official news from an official fax from the US Bankruptcy
court in New York. It happens by American law that if a situation such as
the Amiga case hasn't been resolved within a year, then the property
becomes public domain. In other words, in May you could have approached
the liquidators and claimed the technology along with anyone else.
Naturally, they want to squeeze something out of it all before that
happens, so they've been forced to move it along.
The upshot is that on the 20th April at 10 am at the offices of Fullbright
and Jowalski in New York there will be a final auction of the entire Amiga
box of tricks - intellectual property, designs, everything. Now a company
called Escom has put in a bid already of $7.3 million, and there is a
number of other interested parties, in particular David Pleasance of CBM-UK
who has been the stalwart and most genuine of the possible buyers from the
start, with imaginative plans for the future of the Amiga. It is stated
that if there is a bid at least $1million higher than that previous offer,
it will go to that bidder on that day. The best outcome would be that
David Pleasance gets it rather than Escom who appear to want it only for
the chip set, and who don't want to revive the whole Amiga market.
Not a moment too soon! This drama is the most depressing soap I've
watched for a long time, as a few big players manipulate the law to cover
their own behinds, and people like you users and us third party vendors are
not considered at all. Not to mention Pleasance who is keen to create
something good with the remaining technology and is constantly strung out
at a corporate level - he must be under some pressure.
So we can say that it will be sold in April. Another good point is
that the price for the entire caboodle was $40 million 10 months or so ago.
This means that, while the market has indeed fragmented to some extent,
there should be more cash available for resuscitation purposes.
So don't chuck out your Amiga, be patient for a little longer, and perhaps
we'll see the Amiga given a new lease of life with new designs, new
machines, and new software. Certainly there is still a lot of affection
and loyalty for the machine out there, and I'm sure that quite a lot of
people would be happy to have both an Amiga and a PC (if they had to have a
PC).
Meanwhile, tell anyone who may be interested that all is not lost!
Tim Strachan