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From: AlexK@tharr.UUCP (Alex Kiernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Quick ST II Challenge!
Message-ID: <1377@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 90 22:40:18 GMT
References: <58392@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Oct20.045209.21823@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <5948@bdt.UUCP>
Reply-To: AlexK@tharr.UUCP (Alex Kiernan)
Organization: Power Microsystems Ltd
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In article <5948@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
>...
>of each message must be by the time it's sent everywhere.  But I still
>feel that small "commercial announcements" are no big deal.  Anything
>done in a reasonable way (short and sweet), seems perfectly OK to me.
>...
I think this one of the most sensible posts I have seen in a long
time, I work for HiSoft and often find myself in a position where I
would like to reccomend some product we have an association with, but
fell I can't even though any commercial success has absolutely no
effect on me whatsoever, I get the paid the same either way.

>
>On the other hand, I think Darek needs to mellow out a bit.  Those
>of you that saw my postings from a few years back, may have noticed
>quite a change in tone and content (I hope for better).  I know at
>one time I was in a lot of KILL files :-)

Having met Darek once, he strikes me as a nice guy, who has been
bitten by shareware. I realised before I got caught up in it and sold
my stuff off to publishers and then ended up working for one. But in
the end it is the small time hackers/enthusiasts (no offence intended
to anyone) who help to keep the ST market alive, so please people
don't try to turn them into martyrs.

Alex K.
(All views/opinions are, of course, my own)