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FIRST
IMPRESSIONS
"The
wonns
crawl
in,
the
W01'ms
crawl
out
.
..
"
J've bee n
wailin g
until
ou
r
print d
eadline
LO
write this
column becau se
I
was
hoping that
the
news we've
hea
rd
th
is
week
would
turn
out to
be a
molehill
,
not
a
mount
ain.
Plus,
l'm
trying
to be
kind to my
blood
pre
ssur
e.
In
case you
hadn
't
he
a
rd
,
thing
s
in
the
Com
modore
liquidati
o
n pro
ceeding s
too
k
the
str
anges
t
tw i
·t
in
an
alread
y
bizarr
e
talc when
it
wa
report
ed
that two
very
fomiliar
reptile
s
had
climb
ed
back
out
of the
prim
ord
ial
ooze
possib
ly to
pla
y
a role
in
the
case.
I
say
"possibly"
because
that
's
wha t
we
were
waitin g to
h
ear as
this issue
went
to
pr
ess. (Fo
r
a
full report
on
the re-e
m
erge
nce
of-
dar
e
I
say
it-ln
1
in
g
Gould
and
Mehdi Ali in the
Co
m-
modo
re
ea
c
,
see
"Overscan,
"
p.
4,
in
this
is
ue.)
Now,
if
Irving
and
1e hdi
wind up
crawling
ba
ck
to
where
they
came
from
with out
a ripple
,
that's
fine-it will
have
cost
us
on
ly
a week or
two in
proceedings wh
ere
de
lays
have
beco
m
e SOP.
But
if
they
succeed
in throwin
g
a mo nkey wrench into th
e
re
olu
tion
of
thi
s
case, the
y
ma
y
achieve
somet
hin
g
even
the
y
cou
ldn't
cau
e
when
they were
runn
ing
the
com
pan
y (i.e.,
into
the ground)
th
em selves-killing
off the
Amiga.
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he
pro
spect
of having
eve
n
part of the
liqui
datio
n
co
me
under
the
juri
sdiction
or US
bankrupt
cy court s
see
ms
to be
making
our
old
friend
s
ju
st
a
little ne
rvous. It
mak
es
a pe rson
wonder
if
the
stric ter,
twelve-mont
h
liabil-
ity peri
od
for
the
act
ions
o
f
former
compan
y
execu
tives
und
er
LS
law
(as oppo sed
LO
thre
e
month
s
in the
Ba-
hama
s) has some
hidden
significance
.
While we certainly
wou
ldn·t
care to
speculate
in
print about
such
a
matter
until
th
e entir e situat ion
is
bro
ught
to
light-and
tho
se
involved
ge1
to
ex
p
lain
I
heir
actions-
I
bet
th
ere
are
mo
re
than
a few Amiga
owners,
not
to
mention members
of the
Commoclo1·e Sha1·eho
lder
s'
i'v
oveme
nt
,
who
might
l
be willing
to
vencu
1
some conclus
ions
of their
own.
·e
Tf
(and
this
is
still
a
very
big
"if'.
as
I
write th
is)
Irving
Gould
and
Mehdi
Ali
succeed
in
ign ificantly
del
aying
tl1e
proce
eding
s
by
filing
an
ol~j ction
to
Lhe
liquidat
ors'
plan
s
e
for
resolving th
is
mess, it would
be
a
trag ically ironi
c
out-
come
to
1.hi
sorry
affair.
Legal
repre
sentatives
for
tl1 liq-
s
e
uidator
s,
Comm odore's
credito1-s and
the partie
s
seeking to
,
pur
cha e
the
rights
LO
the
Amiga were on
tl1e
verge
of work-
ing
out a
ve1 dinicult,
hard-fought
settlement
to the
case.
y
he
Any
fi1rthcr
delay-es
pecially from
1. corn er
that brought
us
tO
this
impasse
in rhe
first p
lace-m
ay well
have d
ire
consequ
ences
for
the future
resurge nce
of tile
Amiga.
Let's
hope
the pe
rpetrator
s
of
the
decline
of
the
Amiga
will
not
be allowed
to
linish
what
all
tl1eir mismanage
ment
and
shorn
ightedn
ess
failed to
achieve.
Long
live
the Arniga!
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