Date   : Fri, 05 May 2006 17:09:18 +0100
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Acorn Reborn!

Austin Pass wrote:
> On 5/5/06 13:02, "BBC Micro" <b_b_c_m_i_c_r_o@...> wrote:
> 
>> The only real thing here in common with the old Acorn
>> is the name and logo, a bit like what happened with
>> either Commodore or Atari, in that case the company
>> survived just to produce T-shirts with the company
>> logo!
> 
> True enough.  I'm romantic enough to imagine a scenario where the laptop
> reseller money goes towards luring back some of the old talent, though.

To what end, though? Nobody these days can design a machine from scratch with 
bespoke software - no matter how good it is, even if totally blows the doors 
off the PC-based competition there's still no way it can succeed.

All I can ever see them doing is selling rebranded PC laptops running the 
worst OS code on the planet - which seems like a sad end. Would have been 
better to leave us with our memories IMHO :-(

The one glimmer of hope is that you're right and they've acquired technology 
rights - in which case hopefully they'll do the right thing and put that in 
the public domain so that we can better maintain all our old kit!

cheers

Jules