What if Everyone Sent Amiga, Inc. a $1 ????

[redrumloa]

@DonnyEMU

They were paying themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, I don't make that much. They should give ME a dollar;-)

[iamaboringperson]

Marky_D_Sahd wrote:
Sorry to re-post my silly idea, but if Amiga Inc. is really in that bad a shape, let's all pool the $50 we ponied up for the CAM and buy teh company outright.  We can make AmigaOrg moderators teh new board members and all have input as shareholders!  Plus, I KNOW amiga.org's got tee-shirts already printed!

Actually you make a good point, they could sell it to Amiga users you could have thousands of Amiga users owning shares in the company.

A much better idea than sending a big greedy US corporation money for somthing you don't recieve.

Or from their point of view, another idea is to offer $50 vapour-shirts, and a whole bunch of suckers will buy, this is much better than getting $1 for nothing.  ;-)

[miles]

downix,

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Amiga, Inc is just a company...
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You have a point there!  The first AMiGA magazine I brought, AMiGA
Shopper, the cover story was Commodore, Bankrupt!  It did not stop me
buying a AMiGA, I am still using AMiGA now, after how many companys
have gone bust?

AMiGA, the computer that, no matter how hard people try, will NEVER
die as long as we are here!

:-)

Why doesn't Bill Gates help A Inc out?  I'm not joking!  Microsoft
could benifit by employing A Inc to work on DE/Anywhere for them, and
help Hyperion with some funding to get OS4 out the door.

Microsoft needs competition.  Competition is good for US!  It would be
good PR for Bill Gates, he needs all he can get :-)  Would Microsoft
miss $4 000 000?  They gave Apple $150 000 000 and look at where Apple
is now!

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[AmigaHeretic]

they could sell it to Amiga users you could have thousands of Amiga users owning shares in the company.

Anybody ever see that Weird Al movie, UHF?

In order to keep his and his friends television station from being bought out by an evil competitor, that wants to turn it in to a parking lot, they sell shares of stock for $10 a piece to the community so every one owns part of the station.  

Great movie.  The guy who played Kramer on Seinfeld is in it and he is a hoot and holler!

So should we call out an S.O.S.  Save Our Software?

[unclewilli-amigalover]

sorry i can't, still trying to build my money back up from the saint louis show in 1991. dog gone!  i wish that os4 would hurry up, gotta have it. :-o

[DonnyEMU]

LOL this is such a great topic, it's got everyone commenting :-)

On the flow of Microsoft giving out cash to Amiga, Inc. What a great Idea!  They Settled with what is left of Be, Inc. for $23 Million. This suit alleged that Microsoft  had used anti-competitive tactics to keep the  BeOS from being included with  PC type machines.  Of course this is a settlement.. and Microsoft did this out of the goodness in their heart not to go to court about it, and certainly they did not admit to any wrong doing or admit that there was any validity to Be Inc's claims..

So what happens the next time another "OS" pops up? The settlement is great for Be stockholders but what about people who want competitive OSes out there (besides Apple which Microsoft seems to give money to so it can survive too). We all know that's a real competitor for them right??

Maybe we should send whoever's next a $1..

[Waccoon]

Maybe we should send whoever's next a $1..

I'm really looking forward to whoever's next.  I just wish so many of them didn't try to be either just like UNIX, MacOS 68K, or "Interface Enhanced with Macromedia Shockwave".

[Corrie]

Wouldn't it be better if we all donated $1 to companies like Hyperion and Clickboom?

[greenboy]

Plenty of people still into the ol' Mercy Sex mindset, I guess ;  } ...That's where someone really scurrilous gets laid somehow because someone who feels pity for them because they are otherwise NOT gonna Get Any - EVER AGAIN!

But Normal Rules of Species Survival are occasionally bypassed to allow those with exceptionally bad breath and unattractive conditions such as deflating boingitis bulge, and recalcitrant behavior keep those traits around. Later those tribes with the most predisposition to Mercy Sex are gonners, supposedly.

But we know differently: dysfunctional communites have a will to survive and remain dysfunctional, just as healthy ones wish to prevail in health.

Anway, what's wrong with sending them used toothbrushes, real strong mouthwash, some condoms, and some ethical business how-to books from the used bookstore ... oh, wait! - the Image-o-Matic indicates that they already HAD business quick-studies ... Must have been the wrong ones though. Did Machiavelli ever live in this time, he could have written power-suspenders-and-ties bestsellers!

But I digress ; }

[iamaboringperson]

Plenty of people still into the ol' Mercy Sex mindset, I guess ;  } ...That's where someone really scurrilous gets laid somehow because someone who feels pity for them because they are otherwise NOT gonna Get Any - EVER AGAIN!

MERCY SEX!!!? What? Where? Where do get mercy sex? Why hasn't anybody told me this before???

Maaaan....With a bit of begging I could of ....
;-)

[greenboy]

iamaboringperson,

I learned of Mercy Sex during some early days of ah, er, "research" into the properties of alcohol. I was spending lots of time in the lab when Mercy Sex was, ah, er, demonstrated for its dubious benefit.

I later was fortunate to leave that line of investigation and find honest labors. But one thing stuck with me: if you are begging for it you probably don't qualify for the real item ;  } ...it's always better if the guys get together and purchase it as a kind of consolation sir-prize for this erpson, or the ladies confer privately before choosing a Vessel of Angelic Mercy and Pity (VAMP).

Now, where was I? - oh, yes - designing a poster for the "Get This CEO an Honest Job" club, to be used as the cover for its first newsletter. I'm thinking a hobo with a five-day growth while errantly holding out a hat for spare change would fit the Bill...

[iamaboringperson]

:lol:




(erpson?)

[Targhan]

@greenboy

Has anyone told you that you are disturbed? :lol: I think I've now been permantly damaged...

[greenboy]

iamaboringperson,

My apologies. I have edited the original message to properly type your name, and have moved the offending verbiage into its proper position to better reflect its syntactical orgins.

But seriously: I believe people would better spend their money by supporting an effort that opposes Global Worming.

[Seehund]

greenboy wrote:

Now, where was I? - oh, yes - designing a poster for the "Get This CEO an Honest Job" club, to be used as the cover for its first newsletter. I'm thinking a hobo with a five-day growth while errantly holding out a hat for spare change would fit the Bill...

Aaah, memories from old threads...



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