Date   : Mon, 24 May 1999 01:19:27 +0100 (BST)
From   : John Lindley <john@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn 

On Sat, 22 May 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >  It is my understanding that Acorn as  a company is intending to implode
> >(those more in the know than me please pipe up and tell me the real
> >facts).
> 
> My understanding is that they have done a deal with their shareholders to 
> exchange 2 ARM shares for every 5 Acorn shares.  Pace have bought the 
> set-top box division including the staff, the Newmarket Road site and the 
> rights to RISC OS for £200k.  Element 14 have basically bought themselves 
> out and are now privately held.  So yes, Acorn as a company will cease to 
> exist and existing Acorn shareholders will simply become ARM shareholders.
> 
> I'm not sure how much of this has already happened and how much is still 
> subject to negotiation and I'm afraid I have no idea at all what the situation 
> is with regard to the BBC ROMs.
> 
> p.
> 
As far as I am aware, the copyright for the BBC ROMS will now be with PACE
as the code in RISC-OS was based on them quite closely. I remember this
being the reason against distributing the roms freely. 


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