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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BADGE Killer Demo Contest (long)
Message-ID: <56@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 19:50:55 GMT
References: <3473@ardent.UUCP> <72810UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <72810UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
->Given the stated purpose of the Killer Demo contest, would it be
->appropriate to add a APPLICATION PROGRAM DEMO category.  For
->example, someone might create a continuous looping demo of the
->capabilities of TeX, or the Director, or Dpaint, or AREXX, or
->dmouse, or whtever.
->
->The local dealer here in Erie, for example, can't demo spreadsheets,
->word processors, graphics/video programs, or anything else for that matter,
->(no flames, please---he's the only dealer).  My notion is that
->instead of running JUGGLER in the front window of his store, he could
->run some sort of productivity software demo.

In my humble opinion, such application demos should be left to the authors
of the commercial software.  First because they know the software best,
and second because it is in their interest to make an attractive demo
that sells.

BADGE should have as little to do with anything smelling of commercialism
as possible.

-- 
					-+= SAM =+-
"the best things in life are free"

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