Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!yoo From: yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! Message-ID: <22161@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 13 Dec 90 08:29:38 GMT References: <9012032130.AA114840@vttcf.cc.vt.edu> <21968@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 46 scott@gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: >I invite Mr. Young over to comp.sys.next. Your time could be better >spent defending the NeXT against Sun than assaulting people who made >a Right Choice which doesn't match yours. I never had the intention to argue that Amiga owners have made anything but a great choice in buying their Amigas. I really think the Amiga is a better PC than anything out there (I have a Mac SE, but I bought it without knowing anything about the Amigas at the time). I want to apology to those Amiga fans that I've offended with the condescending tone in many of my earlier postings. At the time, I thought I was fighting fire with fire, condescension with condescension, but I overdid it more than a bit and helped make the situation much worse. Sorry. I think the NeXT is no threat to the Amiga. As the Amiga is not a direct threat to the NeXT. The Amiga 3000UX and the NeXTStations will be competing with each other, but there is plenty of room for competition and success in the fast growing low-end workstation market. It's kind of gotten loss in the shuffle, but my main intention here has been defend the NeXT against those who trash it unfairly. I'm not here to sell anyone a NeXT computer, nor to belittle the Amiga (which is a great machine). I wanted to point out to certain posters that their criticism of the NeXT might be misguided. I used the wrong tactics sometimes, used too many sharp-tongued comments about the Amiga. But, by and large, I tried to keep my postings informational and fact-filled. It seems that no two people will every agree on everything. Though both Scott Hess and I are NeXT software developers, we disagree on some major points. But, then, NeXTers, or "NeXTans", or whatever we are, are not much different than Amigans, Mac-ers, PC-ers, whatever. We each have our petty quarrels and battles over dogma. Recently, there has been a full-blown religious war over whether click-to-focus (on a window) is worse than point-to-focus in comp.sys.next. Of course, nothing was resolved. And it looks like little will be resolved here. Amiga fans remain Amiga fans, NeXT fans remain NeXT fans, and there is still misinformation being posted about the NeXT and the Amiga from both sides. I want to publically thank those Amiga-philes who've been friendly to me in their e-mail. A few of those who first came at me with four-letter epithets I now enjoy chatting with thru e-mail. It's amazing how reasonable and understated we computer fanatics can be when we're not battling each other on Usenet. Long live the NeXT. Long live the Amiga. As for IBM....that's another flame war...