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From: carpente@corinth.uucp (Michael A. Carpenter OSBU North)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Ongoing debates....
Summary: WARNING, SOAPBOX FOLLOWS
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Date: 5 Dec 90 17:45:17 GMT
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In article <9465@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-gy@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ben (Benno) Carroll) writes:
>To all you Amigans and NeXTers out there...
>I think it would be great if the new blood
>(NeXT and Amiga both) were to survive and eventually dominate the market,
>maybe even bankrupting the old boring-and-relatively  inflexible families
>of Mac and IBM.

[Start soapbox]
I think it is unfortunate that people (in general, and this doesn't just
happen with computers, but in all aspects of life) get caught up in a
very myoptic vision of the world.  

We all need to come to grips with the fact that NO ONE COMPUTER IS GOING
TO SURVIVE AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OTHERS!!!  Pardon me for shouting, but
we are living in the age of Open Systems and Interoperability.  And for
all the media hype about these things, we are finally coming to a point 
where 10 people can work together on 10 different computers.  And I think
that is how it should be.

Maybe Amiga is right for me and NeXT is right for you and IBM is right for
someone else, etc.  So what?  Let it be.  Let's stop the religious bashing
and get on with the more important work of making things cooperate seamlessly
together!  Let's get on with standards like TCP/IP, FDDI, etc. that will
unite a heterogeneous computer world.  We can have unity without all being
forced to use the same brand of computers!
[End soapbox]

Sorry, to make this sound like a tirade...

Michael
carpente@parc.xerox.com