Oh that’s sad; Evesham was until recently probably the best of the UK’s PC suppliers, but it has reportedly just been bought out by Time, consistently one of the worst. The fate of Evesham, a Midlands-based company from Worcestershire, is not due to some arcane aspect of how free markets operate, but is a direct result of the government’s dithering interference in the market via the failed Home Computing Initiative. And what does the government have next on its market-tinkering agenda? Oh joy; housing.

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by D’log :: blogging since 2000 » Free laptops
24 Sep 2008 at 19:51
[…] collapse and ruin of the best and most efficient mass-market computer builder in the Midlands – Evesham. Let’s hope such unintended consequences don’t also emerge from this new scheme. I note […]