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From: bjorn@dataio.UUCP (Bjorn Benson)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: Something you'll never see in Pournell
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 14:32:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 14:32:58 1984
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I will not cut it out already!  My biggest complaint about him and his 
column is the way he reviews software and hardware that he is given 
free.  Respectable magazines (and to my knowledge BYTE is included) 
buy, or accept just as a loaner, things that they review.  For 
example, Consumer Reports acts just like an average consumer, and 
Car and Driver doesn't get to keep all those cars they test do they?
	Jerry gets courted day after day as a "special person" by the 
companies he reviews software for, and gets instant response on 
hardware problems and then has the GALL to call himself as average 
user.  THAT is where I get upset.  If he admitted that everyone treats 
him like the world's most important person, then maybe I would read 
his column... but he doesn't so I don't, and I have the right to 
complain about it, even on the net.

				Bjorn Benson
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