From: hoggett@airtime.co.uk (Bill Hoggett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Yet another friend of mine has left the Amiga scene ! Date: 26 Jul 97 17:48:02 +0500 Organization: None Specified Message-ID: <1387.7146T1068T147@airtime.co.uk> References: <5rervu$182@wombat.cs.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: rlan2.airtime.co.uk X-Newsreader: THOR 2.3 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED* Lines: 32 Path: 195.95.96.2!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.airtime.co.uk!usenet Xref: 195.95.96.2 comp.sys.amiga.misc:148852 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:178867 On 27-Jul-97 Bernd Meyer wrote: >hoggett@airtime.co.uk (Bill Hoggett) writes: >>On 26-Jul-97 Stephan Schaem wrote: >>> Its not like the investisment was grand... they could easely do nothing >>> with what they have and not think twice. >>But WHY ? Do *you* throw money away for no reason whatsoever, even small >>amounts ? Anybody doing that in business get a reputation for making bad >>decisions, a real downer for career prospects. >Actually, though I never understood the idea behind a tax writeoff, >the acquisition of Amiga Technologies by GW2k seems to have all the >classical characteristics. So the person making a decision like that >may be called "accountant". It's the only remotely plausible reason I've heard for Gateway wanting AI to fail. However, they need to be pretty desperate to do this, because it makes no sense unless they buy the company at a bargain price, so that they can claim that the company's assets are worth more at the time it ceases trading. I admit I don't quite understand the concept either. Just one thing though: If Gateway were that greedy for the money, why didn't they just cash in on the merger with Compaq instead of worrying about the company's status ? --- Bill Hoggett (aka BeeJay) IF GOD IS LIFE'S SERVICE PROVIDER WHY HAVEN'T I GOT HIS I.P. NUMBER ?