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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: some comments overheard at local computer show
Keywords: comments, Amiga
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Date: 30 Aug 89 18:07:04 GMT
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In article <1792@ucqais.uc.edu> ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) writes:
>This is NOT a flame, I repeat, NOT a flame, nor is it meant
>to cast any dispersions on Commodore, just thought I would pass
>on some comments received this weekend.
Well, this is a bit of a flame. After having watched C= employees on 
the net, their willingness to help and their obvious ability as 
engineers; after watching Paul Higginbotham's messages and seeing 
a guy in marketing posting good code that others can use; after 
having dealt with some very helpful people in C= service who fixed
my brother's monitor; after watching the many people who have contributed
production-quality public domain software over the last 3.5 years; after
seeing things like Arexx, WShell, amigatex, and so on, which do 
things i can't do on any other machine; after 3 years of realizing 
just how good a *system* the amiga really is, while watching the PC-MS/DOS
crowd crow about their kludges
...
   one is left with the basic impression that the amiga and its many 
supporters in and out of Commodore have been ill-served by the people 
at the top. We can only hope this situation will change. But the 
machine, and the people who have done so much for it, are sure a lot
better than all the high-paid, high-powered execs who have done so 
little. But nobody ever said life is fair, right?
ron