Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: R & D
Message-ID: <1276@looking.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 16:53:25 GMT
References: <1987Dec31.122642.19862@lsuc.uucp>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Distribution: can
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <1987Dec31.122642.19862@lsuc.uucp> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>In the case of [Batteries Included], it's *clear* that Canadian
>jobs were lost.

I'm not sure I understand this.  Batteries Included was bought by a Canadian
public company, and afterwards it collapsed.

After everything was ruined, Electronic Arts came in and purchased the
assets, preserving the contracts with most of the developers.

Certainly jobs were lost, as in any company failure.  But the job loss
had nothing to do with international matters.  In fact, the US company helped
preserve income for some folks, at least for a while.  Of course, not for
long, since the Atari ST never turned into a major machine the way people
wanted.

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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473