Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
Quote:
KennyR wrote:
I hear the Checkmate case has been cancelled. That wasn't because people said nasty things about it in forums. That's because an actual doer is being sat upon by the same old bullshitters who don't want to see anything new in Amiga land unless it's theirs, but are too mired in corruption or legal scandals to do anything themselves.
This is not exactly correct. The initiator still plans to ship a total of 500 cases, which might be enough to saturate the market in fact.
Apparently, the project is not lucrative enough to outsource the final assembly and shipping of the cases but the project founder has found it challenging to handle this all by himself in addition to his day job and other obligations so he currently has no plans to produce and sell additional batches. He did mention the idea to give up his day job and work on it full-time (!) but he is unwilling to do so while the A*(TM)(R) situation is as it is.
I do not think it is unfair to say that it is uncertain whether giving up a day job for this project would be a good idea regardless of any on-going legal disputes.
