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From: rogue@well.UUCP (L. Brett Glass)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.2 Updates:  Lattice libraries
Message-ID: <1162@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-May-86 19:01:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1162
Posted: Tue May 27 19:01:03 1986
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Reply-To: rogue@well.UUCP (L. Brett Glass)
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In article <1158@well.UUCP> perry@well.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz) writes:
>In article <269@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, randy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Randy Weiner) writes:
>> 	Please note, the $450.00 does not include free-lifetime
>> updates. The 1.2 update will probably be your last. In either case,
>> your name(s) will be maintained on our mailing list. When an update
>> is available, you will be notified as to how and when to obtain it. 
>
>Randy,
>	What kind of cheap shot is this? Whatsa matter you guys starting 
>to feel confident so you're  starting  to screw the people who made your
>product? Listen fella.  Developers  are  entirely responsible for market
>acceptence of the Amiga. Jerk us around and cut your own throat. Got it?
>
>	By the way, the 450 DID claim to include updates. Don't give  us
>this bunk.
>
>	Perry S. Kivolowitz
>
>----------
>
>	BTW I encourage every developer to make their views known. 
>	We put up when the Amiga was a risk. We want our due and
>	certainly what we paid for.
>

Well, while I don't agree with the >tone< of Perry's message, I do endorse
his sentiments. Commodore seems to be "screwing the people who made [the]
product" both internally (by laying off vital and superior engineers) and
externally (by arbitrarily cutting off support for developers, as documented
above). If the Amiga is to survive, Commodore MUST learn the lessons that
Apple, DRI, and Atari have learned: your developers are your life's blood.
They must be encouraged -- nay, coddled -- and given every possible incentive
to do their best work. The Macintosh, made by cash-flush Apple Computer,
nearly failed when they forgot this.

I speak not only as a developer but as a partisan of the Amiga computer who
wants very much for it to succeed. It tears my guts out each time I see
Commodore threatening to destroy its hope for the future. Perhaps West Chester
ought to sell Amiga to a company that knows the computer business, rather than
dragging the Amiga down with the ship.

-- Brett Glass