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From: carus@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (bryce.w.carus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More on WordPerfects Reasons
Message-ID: <700@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 12:44:32 GMT
References: <4389@alvin.mcnc.org>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <4389@alvin.mcnc.org>, by raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams):
> In article <6550@homxc.ATT.COM>, doug@homxc.ATT.COM (D.SULPY) writes:
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>> I wonder if it has ever entered WordPerfect's collective head that their
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> now, but here it comes:
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> 			THE DEFENSE OF WORDPERFECT
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> 	I have been reading reviews of wordperfect for the last couple of 
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> 					Russell Williams


Without getting into/or extending this war on WordPerfect as a program,
consider what we have read on the subject so far...

There have been two major articles from knowledgeable insiders *EXPLAINING*
their reasons for not going farther with WP in the Amiga market.

It is my observation that such open discussions by any company regarding their
business motives is very rare. They went into considerable detail on both a
business level and on a software level. I, for one, detected a bit of pain in
their observations. They seem to have cared about the Amiga port.

I think we should applaud their frankness, thank 'em for trying, lament their
view of the Amiga market and wish other so-called companies would pull the
plugs on their stuff as gracefully as WP has done.

			Bryce Carus