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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Free CDTV
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 05:44:10 GMT

In article <1991Jun25.132334.29734@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   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?

	You miss the point. No one is FORCING you to do anything.
Commodore is taking advantage of the fact that there are people,
no matter what their motives, who ARE willing to do this. You may
think them nuts for doing it, but Commodore is making a smart
decision by taking the hyper-enthused rabid Amiga owner and
having him/her sell 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.

	Just a small correction. Commodore's "managers" don't
make 7 digit salaries. There are TWO people at Commodore who make
7 digits, and they are Irving Gould (who founded the company and
owns 20% of the stock) and Mehdi Ali (CEO? I forget). Irving
Gould gets the money because he owns the company (i.e., Homey
don't play that). Mehdi Ali gets it because he is the hot-shot
manager they hired and they need to give him that money to keep
him. You may think it is excessive. I may think it is excessive.
But Commodore's "managers" make more down-to-Earth salaries. In
fact, there is an enormous jump down in salary from Irving Gould
to the next lower paid employee (I believe Copperman got $450,000
for being President of CBM)
	-- Ethan

FF buckets of bits on the bus,	FF buckets of bits.
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FE buckets of bits on the bus.