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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Subject: Re: There's No Fun At Pixar
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Date: Sat, 8-Aug-87 20:43:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  8 20:43:25 1987
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Summary: Bang!  Another foot bites the dust!


I'm starting to get quite a chuckle out of this whole Cape Man versus
the Punks of Pixar contremps.  I love it when the heavies shoot
themselves in the foot, and Pixar's just blown theirs off up to the
kneecap!

I mean, think about it for a moment.  On the one hand, we have the
hero of comp.sys.amiga, the man in the cape, the provider of
robotroff, the best trick to play on your friends in Amiga history,
and Viacom, the funniest jab at a public utility in ages, to name a
couple of FREEBIES the kid has put out; showing off his favorite high
tech toy by imitating a short segment of a big machine promo, on a
little machine.  On the other hand, we have the heavies, who spent,
they claim, man-years to do what our hero tossed off in a weekend.  Do
they accept imitation as the sincerest form of flattery?  Ah, no, they
threaten the hero with a lawsuit!

I mean, if I paint a picture of a unicycle, I haven't cornered the
market on unicycle paintings, any more than my photograph for sale of
the Statue of Liberty prevents you from setting up your camera the
same spot I did, taking the same picture, and selling it too.  You
just can't paint a unicycle just like the one I did, put MY name on
it, and try to sell it as MY work.  That's called counterfeiting, and
it is against the law pretty much everywhere.  So Leo, when you
distribute your little red bike show (couldn't you have done a
recumbant bike juggling doves and olive branches?  I mean, it's well
known to be "the only way to fly"!) please DON'T put Pixar's name on
it anywhere!

So, the heavies lean on our hero, but they haven't watched enough late
night TV (You do remember TV?  Boring, pre-personal-computer user of
video tubes?  Sure you do!  Anyway, moving right along...) to
understand that you do that kind of stuff in back rooms and dark
alleys, not in the glare of the lights of Main Street.

So here we have Pixar, hoping to sell high tech graphics systems to
the world computer graphics consumer community.  Here, also, we have
(last readership poll) about 12,000 of the most plugged in, dedicated
computer graphics consumers in the world, the ones that went out and
bought the premier home computer graphics computer on their own
nickel, and who got that nickel, in lots of cases, working at places
that BUY COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT.  Guess who they're going to
decide they NEVER want to get tied up with in a contract?  Need a
hint?

T h e  h e a v i e s .

That's right!  Pixar.  I love it!  Keep up the good work guys!  Can
you think of a way to get any worse publicity for yourselves?  Sure
you can!  Doesn't that foot you're hopping on make a tempting target
for your next shot?  Let's see you take poor Leo to court!  Better
yet, let's hold the trial on the net.  Where else you gonna get a jury
of Leo's peers?  (Good thing we don't have to gather a jury of Pixar's
peers; we'd have to reach way down in the dregs of guys flaming on
soc.women to find a dozen more such stuffed shirts!  ;-)

(So sue me; I'm so broke the hospitals don't even bother sending bills
any more. ;-)

Kent, the man from xanth.