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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II FOREVER! (an open letter to software companies)
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.213357.15142@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 91 21:33:57 GMT
References: <1991Apr14.193943.28540@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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This letter needs some serious chilling out and toning down before
Mr. Software Company is going to read it past the first paragraph.

I don't mean to be harsh, just honest. When I did the Apple //f papers I
made sure they were serious proposals with, for the most part, sound
arguments. The paper sounded like I knew what I was talking about, and
when I didn't I extrapolated and said so. You are not going to get the
software companies to read this one as soon as they start seeing all
the emphasized words, and "it's your problem if you can't hire decent
programmers" type quotes. This letter looks way too much like the rantings
of crazy old II fanatics and it really is not appropriate for this kind
of letter campaign -- personal letters that they can't just look at and
say 'oh yeah, one of those' until they've had a chance to be influenced
by it are far more appropriate.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu