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From: mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
Message-ID: <4193@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 91 02:25:40 GMT
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Time out!

Hooooo wee!  When I logged on to my Unix account today my mailbox was so hot
I nearly got 2nd degree burns!

Yes it hasn't even been a day yet since I posted the "Get Wit The Program" 
message expressing how I truly felt about Commodore, and already I've gotten
much flame mail.  Well, that's what I expected, and it proves my point.  You
all* can't do anything but flame me because you know I'm right.  Yeah I
admit it was tacky, but then it got people to notice it, didn't it?  That's
just what I wanted.

(* You all of course does not mean everybody.)

I'm sorry, but Commodore simply is not doing enough for me.  People say they
don't have enough money.  Well then what are they doing in the business?  If
you can't advertise and get your product out in the open AND NOT IN THE CORNER
so John Q Enduser can see it and say "Well, there's three different computers
I can choose from" then you shouldn't try to even bullshit yourself.  I'm sure
that C= has some money set aside for advertising.  Use that money to the ful-
lest, get some good ideas flowing, get something that's catchy, something that
will sell the computer, so you can make mo money, mo money, mo money!(tm) And
the mo money you make, the mo money you have to advertise, John Q Enduser sees
the computer mo and thinks mo about buying it, then uh oh!  We've back in the
running!  They can devote more money into advertising, more money into fixing
the chipset, etc. etc. (this is just an example, so don't treat it as anything
more.)

But I never see Commodore advertising!  What, do they think that they can
advertise once a year and that's supposed to carry them through?  I'm always
barraged with IBM PS/2 ads, and IBM sales representatives are always present
at our campus, in our computing facilities (part of which I happen to run)
--of course they have tons more cash to play with than C=, but still in my eyes
that makes no difference.  Even the Atari ST series is getting more radio play
than C= machines.  And I always see NeXT posters floating around.  And I will
tell you this: Amiga is the only computer not represented in our "Showroom Lab",
I'll call it.  This lab is where a few computers from each company (except
C=) are shown, and is also where you find out about ed discount prices, but
that is another thing entirely.

About Marc Barrett: Behind all the "false figures" and the "annoying way he
posts his opinions/truths/whatever", although I don't agree with him or the 
way he does it, he is hitting home in some very valid ways.  Because you
are all sweatin him like buzzards on road kill.  At first I thought he was
nothing but a fountain of bullshit, but the more and more I read and analyze
his stuff, the more apparent it becomes that this man is pointing out some
serious faults in C=.

Anyway, you can take it how you want to.  This is _NOT_ an apology for the first
post I made, and like I said, if ya don't like it, what comes after J?  Or
after M?  And no matter what you think of me, I'm doing my best to push Amiga
into the spotlight, so other people can actually see the damn thing.  What are
_YOU_ doing to make Amiga better?  Ask yourself that.

Now, let me go and get the sysadmin to douse my mailbox before it fries my
computer....:-)

**********************Malcolm "The Capital MD" Moore**************************
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