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From: tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
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Subject: In defense of Brooklyn (was: Pecan Software "steals" $100 from me)
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Date: 24 Feb 88 17:24:38 GMT
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Summary: I don't detect any locational prejudice do I?  Naw, didn't think so.

In article <7432@ncoast.UUCP> btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) writes:
$ [...]
$ Several weeks ago, I posted an article about some interesting development
$ products from:
$ 
$ 		Pecan Software Systems
$ 		1410 39th Street
$ 		Brooklyn, NY  11218
$ 		718-851-3100
$ 
$ [...]
$ 	I was a little suspicious about dealing with a company with
$ a Brooklyn, NY address, and I should have trusted my instincts.
$ 
$ [...]
$ I have learned:
$ 	- to trust my instincts and avoid businesses located in Brooklyn
$ 	- to avoid Pecan Software, and
$ 	- to stick with "big blue" (i.e., Microsoft)
$ 
$ I don't know if anybody else on the net has had dealings with Pecan, but
$ I sure regret mine.  (To the tune of $100.)  But, I'm not giving up. 
$ Next stop, the Brooklyn Better Business Bureau (if they have one).
$ 
$ I am disgusted with Pecan Software.

Brad, your complaints about the company sound valid.  But would
you kindly explain to me why the thousands of businesses in Brooklyn
should all be suspect because they are in a city you don't live in
and probably don't like?  Have you ever been there?  This is
disgusting.  It's not very distinguishable from racism.  I call it
locationism.  I would be as annoyed at Pecan as you are.  They were
not very business-like.  But I fail to see why their practices are
correlated with their address!

Clean up your mind.

Furthermore, how many software companies take a return because you
don't like the product?  I think they should but they don't.  So
how has Pecan been different from the others?  Tell me Microsoft
would return your money.  There was a discussion here very recently
about how an ad Microsoft placed was deceptive about a feature in
their new compiler that simply did not exist and thus was not
essentially present.  And it was a major selling point.  I am not
excusing Pecan.  What they did sounds inexcusable.  I just want to
put it in context.

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