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From: mitsu@well.UUCP (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
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Subject: Re: 1.2 Updates:  Lattice libraries
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Date: Sun, 1-Jun-86 13:52:50 EDT
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	I sincerely hope you people at Commodore realize the step
you are taking in reducing third-party developer support.  You may
think you are saving the bottom line, but increasingly developers
have been suspending projects out here (on the West Coast) because
they hear of what you are doing to Los Gatos.  I hate to post this
publicly, because I love my Amiga and I do not want to hurt its
chances in the market, but I feel strong words are necessary to make
you guys in Pennsylvania listen up.  THIS IS A STUPID MOVE.  You
are alienating developers and hurting your own future.  The Amiga
may not be the Number 1 seller in your inventory, but it sure is
your only chance to survive in the future.  If you blow this one,
you're not going to get a second chance.  There are new graphics
chips coming out from the chip makers, and your only advantage at
this point is the strong third-party development community you have
behind the Amiga, and the year and a half or so head start you have
over every other manufacturer (as far as an affordable blitter-based
graphics engine is concerned).  THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE, SO DON'T
SQUANDER IT.  The Commodore 64 is not going to last forever.  The
political situation in West Chester obviously is favoring the C-64
and -128 people, since they are the ones selling the most machines,
but you Americans should wake up and realize that politics is not
the way to run a company.  Every time politics has taken over, the
company suffers; look at GM, look at Apple during the Mac-II wars.
Perhaps it is inevitable what you are doing to Los Gatos; if that is
really true, forgive me.  But I don't think so.  Please put away
your egos and wake up to the fact that the Amiga is the most
valuable egg in your basket, and quit f-----g with us.  
				Mitsu (mitsu@well.UUCP)

*FLAME OFF*