Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!m2c!wpi!tron
From: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Lack of feedback
Message-ID: <1007@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 89 00:49:48 GMT
References: <4526@umd5.umd.edu> <71925UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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>In article <4526@umd5.umd.edu>, feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman) says:
>>
>>NeXT:  Tell us what you are going to do!  Make a decision on the s-word.
>>You have seen the arguments and you should have known about our requirements
>>from the start -- we are your target market!
>>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hmmn... Last time I checked, Steve Jobs said that College Students and
Institutions for higher education were NeXT's "target market." And as most
students are going to use NeXTSTEP and minimal Standardized C, I really don't
see what all of this fuss is about NeXTSTEP Source code. NeXT, if they are at
all the the last company that Steve Jobs founded, WILL NOT shaft the users of
his machine. Any signifigant system changes will be available in the monthly
NeXT magizine that NeXT will be sending to each institution who picks up their
systems. Refer to the INSTITUTE contract (which I am currently holding) for
details...

Richard G. Brewer

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