Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Irving and mehdi Message-ID: <21006@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 27 Apr 91 22:56:50 GMT References: <6456@amiga.UUCP> <1991Apr4.223101.7618@uncecs.edu> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 In article <1991Apr4.223101.7618@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes: > It is my understanding that both Messrs Irving and Mehdi are >getting on in years. Perhaps it is their concious decision not >to worry very much about futures, and just enjoy their incomes. Irving, sure. I don't think mehdi is all that old (50?). >Plowing receipts back into research means less money for dividends, What are dividends? 1/2 :-) Commodore doesn't pay dividends. Some agreement with the banks that financed Commodore when it was losing money hand over fist (and when Mehdi was working for said bank). >Less money for a nice salary now . Why worry about the fate of the >company in 5 - 10 years from now. No one has ever accused Mehdi or Irving of being stingy with their own salaries. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)