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From: drichard@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (David Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - Mem management and resou
Message-ID: <11573@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 91 00:04:42 GMT
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>   Commodore has the capital, but their management just doesn't use
>it.  For the fiscal year 1990, Commodore's profits were down, but they
>still had well over $90 Million that they could have used to increase
>R&D had they wanted to.  For the fiscal year of 1991, Commodore should
>have even more investment capital available.  

First of all, I can't believe you have any experience managing a multi-
national corporation, so I don't think you are in any position to
intelligently comment on Commodore's use of capital.  I know that I am 
not.  I would prefer to have slower improvments than a bankrupt company.
Remeber that Commodore bought Amiga, after the firm that was trying to
innovate it went belly up and died!

>   Unfortunately, Commodore's management does not read CSA, and the
>engineers who do read it have to put up with the brunt of my flames.
>I can really hardly blame them for not liking me, though I think if
>they stepped back and took a look at what I am trying to accomplish,
>they would see that my intention is not to make them feel bad but
>to give them long-term job security and make them all filthy rich,
>(even at the possible expense of my own personal future).  For this

(Oh Please! aren't we being a little egocentric and melodramatic?)

>reason, I intend to start trying to more directly influence the
>heart of the problem -- the management -- though I cannot yet say
>precisely how.

Well I do read CSA and I am tired of reading complaints.  Why don't you
take all of your complaints and write them in a letter to the people you
are ostensibly trying to influence.  You wouldn't get nearly as much spleen
out of it, but you wouldn't be annoying the people you're "trying to help"

Finally, problems aren't solved by complaints, but by ideas.  If you have a
few ( and I'm talking about something a little more specific than spend more
money on R&D)  I'm quite sure Commodore will pay you for them.  I guess what 
I am saying is put up or shut up!

Dave

drichards@hmcvax.claremont.edu