Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!vaxf.iastate.edu!TAAB5 From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Free CDTV Message-ID: <1991Jun25.132334.29734@news.iastate.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 13:23:34 GMT References: <14234@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jun24.143041.30970@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,<1991Jun24.233755.1249@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 38 In article <1991Jun24.233755.1249@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >Right on, Ethan. We've been bragging for years that users are >the best sales force Commodore has; time for us to put up or >shut up. Kudos to Commodore for calling our bluff; now let's >go out and show the level of aggression and commitment that >Commodore marketing should have had all along! > >The free CDTV is gravy; the real win is recognition that there >is a problem with Commodore marketing that formal use of the >"user sales force" can help solve. I, for one, absolutely refuse to do Commodore's work for them. Since I bought my Amiga back in early 1986, I have personally sold more Amigas than Commodore's entire marketing department combined. (Well, that's an exageration, but I have talked a LOT of friends into buying Amigas). I have already done a lot of work for Commodore, and have never received a dime for it. Why should I continue to do their work for them? As long as Commodore owns the Amiga and receives the profits for its sales, it is entirely up to Commodore to do the marketing, and we should have to do a damn thing for them. If Commodore were to declare themselves a non-profit company, and give all rights to the Amiga to the Amiga community, I would agree to Amiga users selling the machine. But as long as Commodore's managers as earning 7-digit salaries from our work, Commodore can take their efforts to have us sell their computer for them to hell with them as far as I am concerned. > >Kent, the man from xanth. > ------------------------------------------------------------- / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / / ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / ------------------------------------------------------------ \ The great thing about standards is that / \ there are so many of them to choose from. / -------------------------------------------------------