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From: DEVA@cup.portal.com (David Michael Alves)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Plus does not pay its authors!!!!!
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Date: 2 Jan 91 14:37:29 GMT
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> Beware that if you and others sue them, they may file for protection under
> chapter 11 (?).  In that case, you will never get your money.


Filing for protection under bankruptcy laws would not be a PLUS for
Amiga Plus Magazine.  Everyone loses.  And besides, we are not getting
our money now, so I don't get your argument.


> While the 1/5th payment may just be a ploy to delay legal action, it may
> also be a good faith payment, with more to come once they find someone to
> bail them out.


Do you work for Amiga Plus??  1/2 :-)

They may actually be trying to pay people.  Let's give them the benefit
of the doubt.  But, Keith Wilke and I (and probably others) have both been
told on a number of occasions that "the check is in the mail".  The fact
that it HAS NOT been in the mail suggests that maybe we are being a bit
generous in our "let's wait and see" feelings.

I can't speak for Keith, but I feel I would have rather been told the
truth about the situation.  If they are having trouble paying people,
but are trying, this would sit better with me then to tell me the check
is coming soon -- and then not coming soon.  I can afford to wait a while
for the check, but others rely on their checks coming in on a timely basis.
(so they can buy food and Coca-Cola and pay the rent and so forth.)


> Also, consider the way a judge might look at their payment
> when considering all other circumstances in court.  If they're as strapped
> as I think they are, you may come off looking like the bad guy.


[ WARNING -- DUMB SARCASM AHEAD ]

Well, up to this statement, I thought I was dealing with just another
loonie.  Why, just last week, I read in the paper about some poor guy
who couldn't make the mortgage payment on his house for the 347th month
in a row.  Seems the bank tried to sue him and take his house away.
But the poor guy was just on his last dollar.  I mean, it was really,
really sad.  Lucky thing the Judge, good man that he was, saw through
the bank's wicked scheme.  "You bank dudes are real idiots", he said.
"Can't you see this poor dude is strapped as I think he is?!?"  (The
Judge was not an English major and realized it.  He was taking night
courses at a local community college to rectify this situation.)
Whereupon, the bank dudes turned around, red-faced, and sulked out the
court doors.  The judge jammed out the back door with his board to hit
the waves at the beach.   A beautiful baby sparrow cracked out of it's
shell in a tree near one of the bank dude's Mercedes.  It was 72 degrees
on a cloudless day.  Not one bullet was fired anywhere in the world for
11.7 seconds straight.  (However, the toilet at Mrs. K. Jennings house in
Thermopolis, Wyoming did overflow during this time period -- no world
can be totally perfect.)

It's great to see some GOOD news in the paper for a change.



David Alves
Devasoft / Tel (408)927-9645
DEVA@cup.portal.com