On 19/03/2022 13:20, Rainer Buchty wrote: > However, I cannot remember that the patent was discussed in large (or > at all) in the remaining Commodore-related press back then, nor on > comp.sys.cbm which I followed since 1993. > I am sure there are a lot of things about the running of the company that wasn't discussed. > While memory might fail me here as it is now the better part of 30 > years since then, even Google doesn't help me much but instead shows > that this XOR patent discussion is something that prominently popped > up during the last 10-15 years and is since picked up every now and then. > Something doesn't stop being the truth just because it only comes out later, Bill Cosby (et al) would have had an easier time recently if that were true. > I put my belief into the sales / revenue / profit numbers, you don't. > That's ok. So let's end this discussion here before we start repeating > ourselves. > I'm saying that it's like trying to argue in court that it wasn't your fault you ran the pedestrian over, they chose to get up in the morning and leave the house. Sure commodore weren't in great shape, but they had been in bad shape before and got out of it. Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft have also had their fair share of sales problems. The xor patent put an end to them being able to fight back. I put my belief in the people who worked at commodore at the time and defended the patent case. If you've run out of things to say that disputes their claims, then sure we can leave it there.Received on 2022-03-20 11:00:08
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