Let's Buy Click Here Software

[airship]

Let's form a co-op and buy Click Here Software. How much could Maurice possibly want for it? He's not making any money from it right now.

For our money we'd get the SuperCPU and RAMLink, JiffyDOS, GEOS, and Wheels. Plus a bunch of other, less interesting stuff.

Then we could put all of it out of its misery by releasing it as Open Source. Hobbyists could burn a few boards, sell a few kits, whatever.

How many hard-core Commodore fans are left that might contribute a few bucks to this? 1,000?

What do you think?

[RobertB]

Let's form a co-op and buy Click Here Software.

From the Homestead mail-list:

From:     Terry Raymond
Date:     Sun, August 24, 2008 8:07 pm

[snip]

Hey good news on the home front, I cant say too much but I have been in contact with Mark Fellows and there is a person that is interested in taking over the CMD C= distribution, Mark is aware of Maurices bad Behaviour and is doing something about this.

[snip]

          Verified through a second source,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[Andrew Wiskow]

I've heard that people have offered to buy his business in the past, and he's basically told them that he's not interested in selling. 

[Golan Klinger]

He has been offered free help to get caught up too and he turned that down.

[airship]

Interesting. Great minds think alike, I guess.

Maybe Maurice has mellowed since the last attempt to buy him out. We can only hope.

[Shaun_CCC(UK)]

Well, I heard this.

Hmm... this is going to be interesting:

Presumabley, the SuperCPU will be available again, whilst Gideon Zweijtzer is working on a SuperCPU compatible/alike device *and* Individual Computers have some sort of generic accelerator which will eventually be SuperCPU compatible, apparently.

Regards,

Shaun.

[Andrew Wiskow]

The amount of innovation that has come about as a result of Maurice NOT shipping CMD items is astounding.  I guess it's like they say, "Where there's a will, there's a way!"

[brain]

I've heard that people have offered to buy his business in the past, and he's basically told them that he's not interested in selling. 

Sadly, I'm sure that is true.

But, note that CMD is not owned by MR.  It is licensed by him.  The owner is Mark Fellows.

Draw what conclusions you wish.

Jim