On Fri, 18 Mar 2022, smf wrote: > Do you mean the bit in that article where it says > Death by XOR Did you also read past the headline of that section? Like ... ... As Commodore approached its final Christmas season, it was having trouble negotiating with its parts suppliers. Years of being behind on payments were starting to take their toll, and Commodore could only procure enough parts to make 100,000 CD32s. As Dave Haynie noted in his Deathbed Vigil video, they might have survived with 400,000. ... The CD32 sold all 100,000 units in Europe and Canada, but Commodore had no money to make any more. Again, this was not the reason of sudden 10M required for royalty payments. Those barely added to the 400M net loss in 1992. But if you need it for your personal well-being, sure, stick with the idea that it was this very patent issue that broke the neck of Commodore. Not years of mismanagement, not years of falling behind, not years of managers grabbing money left and right for as long as they could. RainerReceived on 2022-03-18 20:00:24
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