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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Message-ID: <1909@looking.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 18:14:39 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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It's not that Byte's editors would be unable to see beyond Amiga remarks,
it's that they won't want to.  Nobody likes to be told they are screwing
up their job, and if you get a complaint, you look for something that
isn't your fault.

Thus the letter could easily get filed as "Amiga user annoyed at lack of Amiga
coverage," no matter what else it said.

The Amiga decision will be one the editors view as beyond their control --
the machine didn't take off, so they don't have to write about it.  Thus they
will be glad to pass the blame in your letter onto it.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473