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From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: So? Did the announcement happen?
Message-ID: <51814@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 91 11:49:04 GMT
References: <8934A47D6BDF205A45@MACALSTR.EDU> <414@alchemy.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <414@alchemy.UUCP> hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink) writes:

>It seems to me that apple is employing a clever strategy of hiring top nothc 
>people like Andy, and thus effectively silencing them.

Apple didn't hire me to silence me.  I can tell you as much as I know now as
I used to know before i worked for Apple.  There's no net gain or loss of
collective cummunity information.  Apple's hiring me is a neutral thing as far
as how much information will be available coming from me.

>It is interesting that time after time people that have contributed greatly
>to software and support for the apple II have been hired by apple (seen as
>a sparc of hope), only to see all creative endeavors of these people locked
>into apple's ivory towers.
  
Assuming that you're talking about me, I kind of doubt that Apple is locking
me into an "Ivory Tower" -- I'm working harder towards contributing towards
the Apple II far more now than I was before just working on ShrinkIt.

I have no substantive way to prove this, except that I've been here for almost
6 months now and >I< feel that I've been more productive.  I've worked the
extra hours, learned the extra stuff, tried out the things I thought would
work, and experimented with stuff that didn't (on my Apple IIGS).  I've solved
problem after problem with the Finder and incorporated features that my bosses
didn't think possible in the time given.  I'm just one person, and I've
done the very best I could.

And, Harry, who are you to judge me?

andy

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