[News] REQUEST by Defendant Amiga Inc for a delay in any decisions | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-Nov-2003 01:47 GMT by Rich Woods | 115 comments View flat View list |
11/12/2003 REQUEST by Defendant Amiga Inc for a delay in any decisions. (RS, ) (Entered: 11/18/2003)
Bill McEwen requests delay in the Thendic-Amiga trial (by personal letter on Amiga stationary with the Ravensdale PO Box address) - pro se.
We are in the process of locating new council (sic) for Amiga as well as finishing up our investment round so that we will be able to move foward with proper representation.
While I fully expect Amiga will have the funding and council (sic)
located before the requested extension......
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REQUEST by Defendant Amiga Inc for a delay in any decisions : Comment 28 of 115 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 20-Nov-2003 09:33 GMT | In reply to Comment 23 (Daniel Miller): The AInc-Nokia deal was much like that famous Lindows-Netscape deal.
Nokia's system ran Linux. The "AmigaDE Player" has already been made to work on Linux. So there you go, AInc instantly have a "new platform" for AmigaDE. Unfortunately Nokia figured out what anyone with a brain could have told them before they started - a complete Linux PC is an interesting research platform but it does not make a cheap, quiet or usable set top box. So they scrapped it.
Nokia aren't alone in having discovered obvious things about consumer hardware the hard way, nor are AInc the first desperate tech company to lose lots of money because they didn't know that. Sony did all the hardware R&D for a complete range of home devices that were supposed to be cheap web-browser/ email/ etc commodities for use in the kitchen, living room etc. Be Inc did the software. Units were shipped to customers, but then Sony figured out what a bad idea it was and recalled every last one. No more money for Be.
The rule is: If you can't see how it will work, maybe it won't work. If you don't believe it will work, don't accept any deal in which making money is conditional on it actually working. Confidence men like Bill McEwen fall for this sort of stuff very easily because the same psychology that allows them to trick others also allows them to be tricked. That's almost certainly why AInc hasn't fired Fleecy Moss (can you think of any practical use for Fleecy "insert techno-babble" Moss at AInc?) |
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