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From: pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Paul Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore!
Summary: MB - 0 credibility!
Message-ID: <1762@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 17:17:54 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> <1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu>
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In article <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>   It has been slashed as a percentage of total sales.  For the fiscal
>year 1990, Commodore invested 3.5% of their total sales in research and
>development.  According to Commodore's Third Quarter Report, for the
>first three quarters of fiscal year 1991, Commodore invested 2.2%
>(approximately) of their total sales in research and devlopment.  If
>this is not a slash, I don't know what is.
>
>                                   -MB-
>
Before I thought MB was just a whiner but this post proves to me that he
is in fact an idiot.  I usually try to give people the benefit of the
doubt but MB has just lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned.  I
don't think there is a single person on the net that would like to work
for a company which adjusted its R&D budget every quarter to maintain a
fixed percentage of sales.  This would be idiotic.  I think MB should
stop giving business advice to Commodore.

Paul.