At 12:51 PM 12/30/2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I don't know about anything up front, but the total
24x10^6 EUR isn't
due in full until 2010.
And the English press release mentioned later in the thread
makes it more clear that it's only a subsidiary of Tulip
that's buying these rights. They can balance the payments
any way their accountants will let them. This "price" isn't
quite the same as someone walking up with a stack of bills.
(But given the massively out-of-order sequence that I
receive this mailing list, who knows.)
- John