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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore already has THE BEST AD for MultiMedia!!
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Date: 18 Oct 90 15:43:29 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.165611.21133@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>May I decry the bonehead stupidity of forbidding dealers from handing
>out copies?  WHAT HAS COMMODORE GOT AGAINST FREE ADVERTISING?  Is your
>sales line going to plummet because user groups start showing Amiga 500
>owners what the A3000 can do?  We don't ask much out here, Howard, but
>the tiniest evidence of a shred of thought would be so pleasant for a
>change.

Hey, Kent, mellow out, I haven't seen any other significant computer
corporation with vice presidents posting regularly to the net and carrying
on conversations with users.  We don't need to start insulting Howard Diamond,
please!

The reason they can't distribute it is because it contains copyrighted
material that the copyright owners allowed (after the fact) to be used
in-store only, with the provision that it would not be copied or distributed.
It was put together in a big rush for the A3000 launch, and all the i's
were not dotted, nor the t's crossed.

Commodore would get sued big-time if they started giving away copies of
that multimedia demo.

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