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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Save your money re: FALCON
Message-ID: <6339@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 16:04:42 GMT
References: <12895@cup.portal.com> <10736@s.ms.uky.edu> <848@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <12991@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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In article <12991@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>As much as I enjoy receiving email, enough is enough.  I've received 28
>emailings so far on the subject of FALCON not working with the '020 and '030
>Amigas; 27 have been in agreement with my posting the "flame", and one was
>not.  I literally don't have time to answer all the mail, but I did answer the
>"negative" correspondent and have included my reply here for your perusal; the
>correspondent's name is NOT among the others who've posted publicly and I've
>removed all references to that person in this reply:

Thad was good enough to leave my name out of this, so I'll toss it in, anyways.
I wrote Thad a letter explaining I thought his flames were turned up a bit
high.  His original posting accused the company who wrote "Falcon" (Spectrum
Holobyte?) of having a very negative attitude towards the Amiga.  (He wasn't
this polite.)  Simply because a company did not build a product that runs on
a rather odd Amiga configuration does not imply the company has a bad attitude.

My response to his response (his response being identical to the posting
to which I am now replying :-) indicated I don't like imperfect software
any more than the next guy.  However, a lot of people have put out software
that violates the guidelines a little.  I asked him (not in those words,
exactly, but...) to keep a little perspective.

So -- for the record.  I'm not saying Spectrum Holobyte did right when they
put out a product that violates one of the Amiga developers guidelines and
won't run on the '020 and '030 machines out there.  But maintain some
perspective!  Don't damn a company for this.  Or at least not before you
know WHY this happened.  Oversights occur.  Maybe one person in a large
company blew it.  Don't damn the entire company.  Don't even damn that one
person -- maybe his 4-year-old has been sick or his dog died or something.

Report the shortcomings.  Don't damn the person or company for them, though.

-Joe
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