Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!know!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <46749@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 5 Apr 91 08:54:19 GMT References: <1991Apr3.190802.11055@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Apr4.015311.19714@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Distribution: usa Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 30 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >What do you want NeXT to make public? What does it matter? Sales figures, profits, etc. Such things are important to developers. They have to know what to expect when they go to market. You see, keeping such data secret allows Steve Jobs to ignore the fact that NeXT isn't making any profits, nor have they ever done so. It allows him to pull his creditor's chains just a bit longer. It allows him to talk companies (with a bit o'the green in his hands) into developing, promising them many returns for their time invester. Steve Jobs' whole marketing strategy is based on secrecy and dishonesty. You want an example? Ok. Consider the big educational discount hype. Ol' Steve is trying to sell a crippled system (only 105MB drive, no compiler, no man pages, Mathematica's gone, Lotus is gone -- you get the license for the compiler and the man pages but you're SOL until you invest in another drive) as the perfect student's machine. WHAT?!?! In addition, the average student doesn't have internet access (ask most college students if they know what the internet IS) so the only software they can get is commercial and EXPEN$IVE! >-Mike Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd