18 Jun
2004
18 Jun
'04
6:58 a.m.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly Vintage Computer Festival spake:
Ok, sorry. $10,000 + $1,350 + $800 (I'll assume 20 sold at $40 each) +
$1000 + $5,000 bonus = about $9,500 net negative when they factor in all
the expense.
Can you put a dollar amount on bad will generated by stupid decisions by a
clueless executive team who thinks they can milk the C= name for all it's
worth (which is still less than what they've already invested in it)?
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I think it's a little more then that. At the recent Commodore Expo in
Louisville, KY, Greg Nacu (distributor of the IDE64) sold the nine IDE64's
he brought for $150 each plus all the Micromys PS/2 adapters for $40 apiece.
LOADSTAR sold quite a few of the email disk subscriptions for $35 each. One thing that has not endeared Tulip to the
Commodore community was an
attempt to grind down on trademark enforcement. First it was the
Commodore name and logo, and then the system ROMs, and there is also some
argument over the IP of the 64 itself. Apparently a collabourator called
Ironstone is developing a new 64 of their own, separate from the C-1 being
created by Jeri Ellsworth, which is nearing completion. There is worry that
Ironstone/Tulip will clamp down on new hardware development as a result.
So these people are fighting over a market worth, at most, $10,000? I
think they've already spent two times that in legal fees. That doesn't include all of the used stuff being
sold there...
From a purely hobbyist pursuit, there is some money to
be made, anywhere
from pocket change to one month's mortgage. But I'm talking about Tulip
basing a business model around this. Are they stupid or just dumb?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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