[rescue] fwd: Linux Foundation Prepares For Microsoft's Legal Action

[Mike Meredith]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 23:03:08 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:46:10PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > Whilst Commodore was a US company they figured out how to do
> > reasonable European prices.
> 
> They may also have been taxed to death. England had it's own computer
> industry and may have had large protective tariffs on computers.
> I'm not sure where the Amiga was actually made for the U.S. market,
> but I do know that some were made in the E.U. possibly Ireland.

That's possible, although the UK traditionally avoids protectionism and
it's especially unlikely during the height of Mad Maggie's reign. No
idea where I might google for information like that though :) (and I'm
not that interested)