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Re: Acer To Acquire Gateway
Posted on 27-Aug-2007 22:22:53
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And Gateway plan to acquire Packard Bell :) :)
Gateway to acquire PB
So.... Acer buy GW (that buy PB)!!! |
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Re: Acer To Acquire Gateway
Posted on 27-Aug-2007 20:26:33
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Not unusual.
Remember seeing a comment from ABB's CEO when they bought the Finnish competitor Strömberg.
Something along this:
"OMG, they manufacture more commodities of different kind than we do"  _________________
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Re: Acer To Acquire Gateway
Posted on 27-Aug-2007 20:22:40
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| The AW news item says it all:
"This must mean that Acer now owns the Amiga patents.
I bet they don't even know they own them. " |
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Re: Acer To Acquire Gateway
Posted on 27-Aug-2007 19:05:16
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What you say is possible. But not all of the Amiga patents are still in effect and there is a legal limit to how long they can be renewed (I think.) Gateway may have had it coming though, and Acer knows how to get things done. Furthermore, as PowerPC chips adopt the AMD-style chip sockets, it will be much easier for interested third parties to make Amiga-compatible hardware. I predict that the Acer problem will be smaller than the Amiga, Inc. problem. |
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Acer To Acquire Gateway
Posted on 27-Aug-2007 17:23:05
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| Acer to acquire Gateway for $710m
Could this have any relevance or impact to Amiga?.If i remember well Gateway still owns Amiga patents, they only gave permission to Amiga inc to use them.Could Acer revoke the permission and put all Amiga related things in a drawer on warehouse like Access did with BeOS?.Could AmigaOS 4 end like Magnussoft Zeta? Last edited by Fransexy on 27-Aug-2007 at 05:24 PM.
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