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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore and \
Message-ID: <4427@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 26 Dec 90 23:03:18 GMT
References: <6331@crash.cts.com> <1990Dec15.061257.1867@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <4271@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <111596@convex.convex.com>
Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Organization: Evil Young Mutants For A Better Tomorrow.
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In article <111596@convex.convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
!>Agreed. My favorite argument from IBM owners is that: "18 Million
!>>MS-DOS users can't be WRONG!" 
!>>
!>>To which I always reply: "Tell that to post-World War II Nazi Germany.
!>>Hey! 18 Million Nazis can't be WRONG! Just because 18 Million people
!>>make the same mistake doesn't mean it's the intelligent thing to do."
!>                          [...]
!>Oh, please.  As a rabid pro-Amiga dude, I have to say this is a most
!>horribly inappropriate analogy that is almost as insulting to MS-DOS
!>users as it is to the memory of the Holocaust victims.
!>
!>Try to keep things in perspective, OK?

Ah. Here is that article I missed. My comments weren't meant to
offend, but I stick by my analogy. I think it put's things into
perspective quite well. If you look at the general attitude of most
businesses today you see a "Either it's MS-DOS compatable or we ignore
it." Mentality. 

				-Moriland


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