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US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million
inKubus writes "Tulip Computers International BV -- which has held the rights to Commodore since 1997 -- said Thursday it will sell the once-mighty Commodore computer brand to U.S.-based Yeahronimo Media Ventures Inc. for 24 million euros, or $33 million. A company spokesman said they would "take actions" against possible copyright infringements of the Commodore name in the United States as well as release a new MP3 player and rerelease classic games."
There is a major problem with people swapping tape cartridges full of programs. Somebody needs to fight these pirates.
A group of investors actually wants the name associated with a company whose business strategy was best summed up as:
Ready
Fire!
Aim
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
some true innovation!
"A company spokesman said they would "take actions" against possible copyright infringements of the Commodore name in the United States as well as release a new MP3 player and rerelease classic games."
Seriously. Is Commodore really still popular?
Isn't infringing on them, like infringing on a dead body?
Perhaps they could release a kit commodore as well, it has been a long time since beginners to computing could sit down and build their own computer from the chips up. Be a great learning tool to see again... Or, I could take the 6502 and finish work that bending robot in the garage...
33 million from lawsuits?
I doubt that they are going to get that much from college kids.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
It was all they could get... names already taken were:
Geronimo
Jironimo
Ghironimo
Geeronimo
Goshronimo
and
Gollyronimo
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Soon I'll be able to clean up by selling my stash of 5.25" floppies! Sweet!
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
Better than GORF, Radar Rat Race, or Lock N Chase?
How dare you.
I remember when a bunch of my friends had Vic 20s, and I wished I had one.
Then for christmas, lo and behold, there's what looks like a Vic 20! Hooray, I rushed over, red-cheeked with excitement. Commodore 64?! What the fuck is that! I had one from the very first shipment to Canada. There was nowhere to get software for it in my area.
I was bummed, and all my friends mocked my useless PC.. Until a few months later my old man took me to the World of Commodore show, where I picked up a Choplifter! cartridge. Then it was: "WHOS LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES!".
I swear I had like 20 kids coming to my house at a time to play it. It just blew away anything we'd seen before, back in the age of Atari's and Colecos.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Coming? It's not even breathing hard.
Bring back the VIC-20!
I want my 1MHZ of screaming power, with 5K of RAM!
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Sod the MP3 player. MP3 is dead. What they need is a portable SIDfile player.
Though I'd probably get some strange looks as I rock out to the "Commando" theme on the bus.
If we're lucky, they might sue SCO.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Actually, it's because of me that the Commodore name has any value. Yeahronimo approached me about buying my slashdot userid first but I said no. So they grabbed "Commodore" instead, completely subsuming my identity. Bastards.
Anybody wants to buy my Commodore? Is $1 Million ok?
echo "getuid(){return 0;}" > e.c; gcc -shared -o e.so e.c; LD_PRELOAD=./e.so sh
Hungry like the wolf.... :P
Oh no! They aren't going to go after Jeri Ellsworth, are they? She can hide out at my place!
Jeri! You read Slashdot, right? Send me a message. In the meantime, I'll go get our, uh.. I mean YOUR bed ready!