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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
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- Subject: Re: I heard of a lawsuit??
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 01:54:32 GMT
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- References: <4cqlfm$9e@s-cwis.unomaha.edu> <9601101641.AA001t3@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- On 10-Jan-96 17:41:36, Steve Powell (Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk) wrote to All ()
- about Re: I heard of a lawsuit?? (<9601101641.AA001t3@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>):
-
- Hi Steve
-
- >In article <4cqlfm$9e@s-cwis.unomaha.edu> spoon@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jonathon B.
- >Witherspoon) writes:
- >>
- >> I heard there was going to be a class action lawsuit against
- >> Softlogic for several problems concerning Pagestream 3.0
- >> and the way they have misinformed the public while they worked on
- >> other versions..
- >>
- >> Does anybody know about this??
-
- >Oh great, just what we need, some dipshit to start trouble like that.
- >What the fuck is up with these whingers? Softlogic never made a secret
- >of the fact that they didn't want to release Pagestream 3 but felt
- >compelled by
- >a) Pressure from existing users
- >b) The depressed state of the Amiga market at the time
-
- >They even go as far as telling you, in every update, all the bugs and
- >short comings that they know about and ask you report any you find.
-
- >This sort of shortsighted mentality makes me want to puke. Christ if it
- >was Softwood or Digita with their Wordprocessors, I would still disagree
- >but I'd be able to see your point, as they tell us (rightly so) that they
- >are shipping finished product, and bloody good they are too! Soft Logik
- >on the other hand never made that claim for Pagestream 3.0, as far as I
- >know. To the contrary, as a paying customer of Soft Logik, I'm totally
- >aware that I shouldn't expect a finished version untill 3.1 ships.
-
- >Certainly when I bought my copy of Pagestream 3.0, I knew it wasn't
- >finished before parting with any money. Does nobody actually give a
- >thought for what it must be like to support the Amiga at the moment. A
- >dead machine that has come back to life at a way too expensive price, I
- >bet these guys really feel secure in their jobs? The question must be
- >asked: Why are they bothering? It can't be for the money at the moment,
- >which only leaves commitment to the Amiga as a valid reason for staying.
-
- >I for one applaud their loyalty, thanks Soft Logik, go and screw
- >these morons into the dirt, but don't be fooled into thinking that all
- >Amigans are thinking in the same way, were not! Some of us can grasp the
- >incredibly difficult task you are trying to achieve with limited manpower.
- >To stay in business over, even the short term, SL are going to have to
- >have products out on other platforms that bring in hard cash, simply to
- >pay the wage bill! To sue a company in that state is either deliberate
- >sabotage or very dim witted, if the intention was to see a finished
- >product.
-
- Exactly my words! (OK your English is far better than mine ;-))))
-
-
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- Bye Manou
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