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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bashing other computer manufacturers
Keywords: IBM, Apple, flame
Message-ID: <1190@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 3 Mar 90 10:46:22 GMT
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In <119@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann) writes:
>I've noticed a large tendancy to flame against non-Amiga computers. [ ... ]
>
>My point is while it isn't necessarily bad to point out the areas the
>competition is lacking, it is poor form to wish them gone.  There is no more
>powerful motivation to better yourself than a strong competitor.

You are right. I henceforth wish them to hang around just on the hairy edge of
marginal profitability and suffer great agonies of indecision while we taunt
them and ignore their machines as 'unserious'.  Especially IBM.

-larry

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