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From: robert@infmx.UUCP (Robert Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari and the Everyday Pe
Message-ID: <3584@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 18:36:46 GMT
References: <90031201022042@masnet.uucp>
Reply-To: robert@infmx.UUCP (Robert Coleman)
Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <90031201022042@masnet.uucp> david.schreiber@canremote.uucp (DAVID SCHREIBER) writes:
>It is IMPOSSIBLE for Nintendo to be sing "monopolistic" practices
>against Atari. Check your dictionary. To me, your message sounds like
>standard American sour grapes whne they lose out to better companies. In 
>Canada we are used to all sorts of unfair practices coming from the
>Americans, so few of us feel the least bit of sympathy when they're
>outwitted by somebody else.

	My, how nationalistic can we get? Gee, I sure hope that someday, 
somehow, the Great and Noble country of Canada will be able to triumph over
the Evil Americans. Isn't it funny how when we (including me, apparently, 
though I've never been involved in any way with inter-country trade) do
it to you, it's "unfair practices" and when someone else does it to us it's
"outwitting"?
	This isn't the appropriate newsgroup for paranoic nationalistic
generalizations. This newsgroup is for paranoic computer-loyalistic
generalizations ;-) .

	As far as Nintendo is concerned, you're clearly passing judgement 
without any knowledge of what the complaint is. Perhaps you should *ask*
the details first? You may still feel the way you do afterwards (though I
should point out that the "monopolistic" practices under discussion would
apply to Canadian companies as well as American companies, so if, as is 
apparently the case, you only care if it happens to Canada, then you might 
change your tune) but at least you'd sound like you knew what you were talking 
about.

Robert C.
-- 
"Helen's the only one who knows what scruples are, and she won't tell us"
John said. "Have we got scruples about it, Helen?"
"Not a trace," Helen affirmed.		-The Reefs of Earth, R.A.Lafferty