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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: BYTE Linux sidebar
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 14:52:22 GMT
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- Steve Halliburton (stevekh@knuth.mtsu.edu) wrote:
- : Despite the fact that it quotes one of the old C= marketing
- : executives, we might want to consider what it says in the
- : latest issue of BYTE, in a text box about Linux entitled "The
- : Sound and the Fury." The quote is: "The fanatic element among
- : our customer base hasn't done us any favors."
-
- : This harping and jibing about each other's choice in hardware
- : makes us look like children. People will be turned off of
- : looking at the Amiga just because they associate our childish
- : behavior with it. It's not a very objective method of choosing
- : a platform, but a lot of people do it nonetheless.
-
- While I do, to some degree, agree with this sentiment, I also take
- offense to the fact that some fool at Commodore said this. I sent
- e-mail (intelligently written, so as not to simply prove their point)
- to _BYTE_ immediately after reading this tidbit. The only reason the
- Amiga lasted as long as it did (and is still breathing today, even if
- just barely) is due to loyal Amiga users. Granted, Amigans go too far
- occasionally, but for someone at C=, who did almost nothing to sell
- the Amiga in the US, to blame *any* users for Commodore's lack of
- marketing success (or effort, for that matter), is insulting. I would
- be curious to know which one of the numerous fools at Commodore
- actually said such a thing.
-
- Matt Harrell
-