Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!atari!good
From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT TT/X specs (rumour?)
Message-ID: <1221@atari.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 21:30:59 GMT
References: <253@cstw01.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 31

in article <253@cstw01.UUCP>, meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) says:
> 
> WARNING: flames ahead.
> In article <1216@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes:
>>in article <252@cstw01.UUCP>, meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) says:
> [...]
>>Even if the information was obtained through apparently legitimate channels, 
>>I believe that the writer should by now be sensitive to the effect of 
>>publishing prerelease data, and should therefore have taken the step of 
>>verifying its accuracy and timeliness with Atari Sunnyvale. 
> I just reported what I read elsewhere, mentioning my source.
> I am NOT and I don't feel obliged to verify this with Atari Sunnyvale.
> I don't know for your side of the big water, but at THIS side has 
> something constitutional called freedom of press and speech.
> In other words: next time I probably will do the same.
> [...]

The "writer", in my posting, is not you, Frans, but the person who published
the original magazine article. I cannot (and do not) complain at your
reiterating words you have read in a freely available (or maybe DM x.xx?)
publication.
And my comment had nothing to do with 'freedom of speech'. It is more
related to such apparently dying concepts as trust and cooperation - again,
not directed at you, Frans. I believe the publisher should really have
contacted myself or someone at Atari Sunnyvale, especially since, it seems,
my name appears as part of the article.
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Roy J. Good
Product Development, Atari Corporation
Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right.
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