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From: ewhac@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore-Amiga Informational Release
Message-ID: <1141@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-May-86 06:55:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 06:55:26 1986
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Summary: No matter how you look at it, it's still a crock.

In article <268@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> randy@cbmvax.UUCP (Randy Weiner) writes:
>
>  As Jay said, management and support services. The engineering support
>services are being picked up by employees at the West Chester facility.
>These services had been provided by people at both sites, an unnecessary
>duplication. Our hope is that this consolidation will allow us
>to provide a better, more uniform service to our devlopers and the
>public.
>

	It occurs to me that, while it is nice to eliminate duplication,
your corporate brains have failed to take into account that West Chester did
not build the Amiga, Los Gatos did.

	The people at Los Gatos are in a far better position to provide tech
support for the machine than the West Chester bunch, and the WC crew should
have, in my opinion, gotten the axe first.

	Don't misunderstand; I'm not saying that, just because "you're not
Los Gatos," you don't know what you're talking about.  However, I can't help
but feel that the West Chester people are "on the outside looking in."  And
who do they see inside?  Los Gatos.

	Not to mention the fact that I'm in the Bay Area, and it's
infinitely cheaper for me to call LG than to call WC.  Further, LG people
attend the BADGE meetings.  I don't think WC people get out that far :-).

	Now for the tough question:  When Commodore becomes nice and solvent
again (notice I used the word "when," not "if"), will these people be
cheerfully invited back to the company?  One hopes so....

	All this doesn't change the fact that the Amiga is still one helluva
piece of hardware.  I'd just like to see it supported by the people who
built it, not the people who bought the rights to manufacture it.

	If you detect a modicum of poison in this letter, it's probably
because I have a general distaste for corporate "brains" and MBA's who, in
my estimation, don't know which end is up when it comes to the computer
industry.  This latest development confirms my theories.  Sigh.

	I still love this machine, though.  And I'm still gonna write stuff
for it, no matter what happens.  So there :-).

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