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Offline motrucker

Re: Why did commodore went under?
« on: August 10, 2012, 05:56:08 PM »
Quote from: Jose;702870
BTW, corruption was probably an even bigger problem, they couldn't have been that stupid, could they ?

This is as close as any one has come in this thread. There were two crooks in charge of Commodore International Inc., by the names of Gould and Ali. They stole all of the company's cash assets, then drove it into the ground.
Look into the shareholder's meetings in the last year or so of Commodore's existence. Gould would call the meeting with almost no advance notice, in places like the Cayman islands (were no laws existed to stop this sort of corporate fraud). This will give you a quick and dirty idea of what went on.
How Gould and Ali managed to skirt the law, and not get arrested is amazing.
But, all this crap about poor aga, or chipsets, is just that - crap.
Commodore International was raped and pillaged, pure and simple.
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Offline motrucker

Re: Why did commodore went under?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2012, 07:47:43 PM »
Quote from: OldB0y;702924
This, plus the fact that the Gould and Ali stifled the engineering team wherever possible.  Not investing in/canning AAA, and delaying AGA's release beyond any chance it had of competing with PC video cards etc.

Well, sort of - but having the money stolen from within does all that by itself, doesn't it?
A lot of people point to the book - nice piece of work, but does NOT hit on the real problems at all. Mainly, Gould and Ali, period.
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