FYI I also found this forum post: /If you watch Dave Haynie's Death Bed Vigil video, during the Layoff Party at Margarita's Evergreen Inn, one of the Commodore employees advises Commodore management to "next time, just pay Cad Track"./ Cad Track were the owners of the xor patent. And /Apparently Commodore-Amiga owed $10M for patent infringement. Because of that, the US government wouldn't allow any CD-32's into the USA. And because of that, the Phillipines factory seized all of the CD-32's that had been manufactured to cover unpaid expenses. And that was the end./ We can argue about whether AAA was too ambitious, should have had more money spent on it or not even started. We can argue that AGA could have been released a year earlier if the new management had not wanted it to fail, or could have been started and released earlier if it hadn't been for AAA. We can argue that it wouldn't have mattered as the PlayStation would be out in a year and Hombre wasn't anywhere near finished to compete. We can argue that a lot of the layoffs that had happened previously set the ball rolling and the bankruptcy was inevitable. That is all easy armchair stuff. What we know is in the UK Amiga 1200 were selling well, in the US Toaster systems were selling well, Irvin Gould took a lot of money out of the company & the xor patent was the nail in the coffin that ended commodore US. On 18/03/2022 17:17, smf wrote: > Because they got sued for non payment of the license fees for the patent > and prevented from importing any products into the US that included the > infringement. >Received on 2022-03-18 19:03:36
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