Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!geech.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party (hit "n" if you're not interested :-)) Message-ID: <1991Mar17.160633.9512@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 16:06:33 GMT References: <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <27E3053E.1145@orion.oac.uci.edu> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 In article <27E3053E.1145@orion.oac.uci.edu> nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen) writes: >In article <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > >>It's not a matter of taking the Amiga seriously, it's a matter of >>paying their development fees. Lotus would be glad to port their >>products to the Amiga for about $15 mill. >> > >Don't know about Word Perfect, but I think it might be worth it for Commodore >to pay Lotus to port Improv from NEXT, or Microsoft to make Word instead of >spending the money to advertise in magazines or newspapers. Just having >these programs will sell the machines. > >Right now if I want to write proposals or research some papers, I am forced to >use Amax on my 3000. There is no productivity software for the Amiga (period)! Oh bull. There are plenty of Word Processor and DTP programs for the Amiga. They jusr aren't as easy to use (in Mac user's opinions) as MS Word, etc. You could still get work done you'd just have to read the manual and learn how to use the program. Lotus is another one of those greedy companies trying to copyright look-and-feel. I wouldn't want Commodore to pay millions just to port a single piece of software., -- /~\_______________________________________________________________________/~\ |n| rjc@albert.ai.mit.edu Amiga, the computer for the creative mind. |n| |~| .-. .-. |~| |_|________________________________| |_| |________________________________|_|