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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Final Word
Message-ID: <2215@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 03:17:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 03:17:18 1987
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In article <1015@pixar.UUCP> banzai@pixar.UUCP (Eric Herrmann) writes:

>[...] We were discussing whether or not
>Pixar had a right to keep Leo from distributing his work.  Apparently, his
>work falls under our copyright.  So, he can't distribute without our 
>permission, which it happens that we don't want to give out, so that we
>can exercise our right to distribute through normal channels. [...]

Yup, Pixar has a right to keep Leo from distributing.  Yup.  Yup.
Haven't heard a voice on the net claim otherwise.

Of course, whither Pixar is being very _smart_ to keep Leo from
distributing is a whole other ball game.

We've got about 100 active posters here, but a readership of 12,000.
It's scary as hell to argue from small statistical samples, but so far
two articles have agreed that in each case the authors are incensed
enough at Pixar's bad form to steer their companies away from spending
$60,000 each on Pixar gear.  Proportioned up to the full readership,
that suggests Pixar has so far alienated about $7,200,000 of possible
business.  Of course, the returns aren't all in yet, so it could be a
lot more.

Netters don't have to organize a boycott; Pixar folks are doing the
organizing just fine by themselves.

Red's Dream must have been gonna earn a bundle for Pixar, and Leo's
Dream wipe it all out, to make these kind of losses worthwhile.
Would have been so easy to have Leo's demo start with a screen saying:
"And if you think this is slick, you should see it on the original
Pixar hardware."  What have we got now, potential 200,000 systems that
belong to a lot of graphics types and could have been doing free
advertising for Pixar?

Kind of reminds me of the story of the farmer, the mule, and the two
by four.  It isn't that the farmer wants to punish the mule, but it
does take quite a lick to get its attention.  Wonder what it will take
to wake up Pixar?

Kent, the man from xanth.