Pentti Kouri has passed away today

[hese7]

Kouri is dead?! Condolences to his family.

[hooligan]

My signature has never been more on-the-point

[trekiej]

Rest in Peace.

[beller]

kgwhdload wrote:
Apple and MS can pretty much sit back and do nothing and the Amiga brand will never compete with them again.

Ahh...a sane person!  I love the Amiga as much as anyone, but, imho, to think the brand would ever be able to compete again is pure insanity.  

It's difficult enough to have two competing main platforms.  Apple has been able to grow recently due to the problems with Windows that never seem to get fixed, and the world's love of everything iPod.

Now, condolences to the Kouri family but I have NO clue who the heck he was.  Time for a visit to Wiki...

[weirdami]

shouldn't this be a news item? or is it better hidden as a forum post because people will be jerks about it?

[ffastback]

hooligan wrote:
long live Amiga

RIP PK.

[da9000]

@Fingers:

Right... but there are certainly much better opportunities for investment than the Amiga market. So again, why would someone who ( presumably ) wanted to make a lot of money be involved with Amigas?

Was he perhaps in from the Commodite days? Anyone know?

[takemehomegrandma]

My condolences to his family and friends.

It's way too early to die at that age!

sadddam wrote:
the death can be cheerful sometimes:)

fingers: i guess thats swedish after all. as in url: svenska. here it is in  finnish:
 http://yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2009/01/pentti_kouri_on_kuollut_496569.html

Finland is a dual language country, with two official languages, Finnish and Swedish.

(Off Topic)

Speaking of that; this year it's actually a kind of "anniversary"; it's now 200 years that Sweden lost its eastern part (Finland, that until then had been Swedish for 600 years) to Russia as part of a Peace Treaty to end the war 1808-1809. Sweden has been neutral and hasn't been in war since then. Finland proclaimed independence 6 Dec 1917. This 200 year anniversary is highlighted in various ways, among other things there will be a new Swedish 1 SEK coin with a special backside, which has the text "the wonderful fairytale about a country at the other side of the ocean", "Sverige 1809 * 1KR * 2009 Finland". This Swedish coin will be made in Finland.

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[weirdami]

Did the Swede types win a war those hundreds of years ago in order to own the Finn type's lands or was it like there was soooo much cold mountains in the way that over time a new language developed in the east because people just didn't really want to go over there to see what was going on?

[Jakodemus]

According to a legend Swedish king Erik the Holy made the first crusade to southern Finland in 1155. So I guess you could say Swedes won a war. Of course, there really weren't any Swedes or Finns at the time. Finns were just a bunch of diffirent tribes and Swedes were only little more organized.

Swedish is a germanic language and Finnish is a fenno-ugric language. So there is no relation between the languages. Little example.

English:Welcome to Amiga.org
Finnish:Tervetuloa Amiga.org:iin  
Swedish:Välkommen till Amiga.org  

[taunusand]

It's always a sad thing for family and friends when someone die.
RIP :-(

But.. Who was he?

[number6]

@taunusand

But.. Who was he?

Chairman of the Board - Amiga Inc.

amongst many other things.

#6
 

[Fransexy_]

takemehomegrandma wrote:
My condolences to his family and friends.

It's way too early to die at that age!

The Amiga curse?  :nervous:

Jokes aside, condolences to the family and friends

[tone007]

Wow, guess I was a little off.

link

[redfox]

My condolences to his family and friends.

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[orb85750]

Jope wrote:
Well.. Shady dealing. Lots of coverage in the press when he did his infamous "Kouri deals" in Finland back in the 80s.

Might be hard to be too sympathetic.

Speaking of shady deals, was he the one responsible for offering $10Million for an Amiga-named sport stadium, then backing out?