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From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaWorld Expo cancelled (Flames ahead)
Message-ID: <1044@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 21:57:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: pinney.1044
Posted: Thu May 21 21:57:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 14:25:55 EDT
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Reply-To: klm@pinney.UUCP (Kevin McBride)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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Keywords: self-destruct stupidity narrow-minded management marketing bean-counters

Gee, I think I'm having flashbacks... A few months ago I made my very
first USENET posting ever on this group asking (Leo primarily) if the
announcement of the A2000 would mean that us folks with A1000s would 
"have a special place reserved in Hell for us right next to the orphaned
Osborne owners?"

Funny that I should think of that again.  Only this time the scope is
expanded quite a bit:  Are Amiga owners in general going to be orphaned
because of Commodore's incompetence?  I know that I am making a strong
statement, but maybe it's time for some strong statements to be made.

[*** I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING ***]
[***   IT SMELLS LIKE...LIKE...MAJOR FLAMES    ***]

Maybe it's time that upper (mis)management at C/A be strapped into
chairs and forced to read this news.group all night long!  Maybe
then they would realize what a gold mine they really have and what
schmucks they are being!

Who in their right f----ing minds would just throw away the opportunity
to drive their machine right into the forefront of personal computers?
(Notice refusal to use PC acronym in sentence that refers to Amiga.
OOPS, that didn't work, did it? :-))

IBM is saying "F--- You!" to all of us "wierdo" computer science types
and is going back to cater to the snobbish stuffed shirt MIS market.
Fine, if that's the market they want, they can have it!

The Atari ST is still a toy and still a piece of S--t!  The Amiga may
have it's problems, but at least they didn't try to glue a toy keyboard
on top of an over glorified video game box that doesn't have an internal
power supply or disk drive!  Get a life!

Come On Commodore!  Get off your asses and get out there and prove to
us loyal owners (and prospective owners as well) that you are deserving
of our continued loyalty!

[SNUPH PHLAMES]

Disclaimer:  There.  I feel much better now.  My therapist says that
	     I need to act out my frustrations more often.

	     To rip off somebody else's disclaimer:
			"I don't smoke.  Flames to /dev/null"

P.S.  I finally broke down and brought Amy into my office.  She is now
      happily conversing with other computers here and I am getting
      lot's of neat things accomplished!  Thanks Commodore for creating
      such a wonderful computer!  I also have finally started catching
      up on the backlog of stuff from the net.

      I got Robotroff running.  Leo, you're sick! And I mean that in a
      complimentary way!  Thanks!!!

-- 
Kevin McBride - Eikonix Corp. A Kodak Co. - 23 Crosby Dr. - Bedford, MA 01730
{{harvard,ll-xn}!adelie,{decvax,allegra,talcott}!encore}!munsell!klm
Disclaimer:  My employers try to sell stuff to themselves, so don't blame
             them for my brain-damaged opinions!