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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: There's No Fun At Pixar
Message-ID: <2210@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 09:41:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 09:41:29 1987
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Keywords: Elevate yourself.  I'm busy.

In article <986@pixar.UUCP> banzai@pixar.UUCP (Eric Herrmann) writes:
>
> >>E) What did Pixar gain? 
> >	Nothing.  Except, perhaps (by wide PD distribution), a greater
> >exposure of the essence of their latest work to people who otherwise might
> >not know about it (I know, I'm reaching).
> Pixar certainly gained a lot of flames from amiga-netters.  If you'll look
> back, you'll see quite a few nasty words from people who probably should know 
> better considering how little they really know about the whole affair (and 
> Pixar).  Consider:  Wouldn't the creators of RD be a lot happier to approve 
> release of Leo's work if the Amiga community were more receptive?

Uh, I think the Amiga community was quite receptive to Leo's demo and would
be equally receptive to an opportunity to view the real Red Dreams video.
Unfortunatly, after everyone heard rave reviews of both, Pixar made some kind
of fuss, apparently intended to prevent us from seeing Leo's demo.

Now it may well be that Leo was a bad boy and took unfair advantage of the
preview he saw and thoughlessly blunted the impact of the Pixar demo for those
persons who saw his thing first.  If this is so, then perhaps Pixar should
accept Leo's apolgies and be done with it.  It wouldn't take him 10 minutes
to add a note saying "Images derived from Red Dreams, courtesy of Pixar"
somewhere in the display loop?

Instead we are hearing noises about legal actions of varying severity.  Leo
has quite a bit of respect on the net and people are not likely to take
kindly to this sort of thing.  The stink you see rising from this groups is
only a reaction to this.

-- 
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