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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <14795@claris.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:32:22 GMT
- References: <D2150035.7sh4j4@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <ajross.711133468@husc9> <ajross.711691406@husc9>
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- In article <ajross.711691406@husc9>, ajross@husc9.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:
-
- > Get a life folks. Instead of taking the arguments as civilized people,
- > you have all, to a person, come out in rabid flame to defend your
- > computers. I never said I disliked macs. I use them regularly. I also
- > use PC's. I had exactly $3,000 to spend. I knew what was available, what
- > I could do with it, and how much it cost. I chose to buy a PC Clone.
- > Deal with it. The point of my posts was to try to defuse what I though
- > were some serious misconceptions I saw in these groups (which I read, by
- > the way--imagine that). This was obviously not communicated very well.
- >
- > As a point to leave you with, consider this: I have not seen one even
- > slightly moderate viewpoint espoused here. Each of these replies have
- > been written either in condescention (see above) or outright hostility.
- > One must wonder if this is due more to insecurity than rightious
- > conviction. I, once upon a time, used an Atari 800, and then a 520ST and
- > watched precicely the same thing happen to its user base as Atari failed.
- > I do not believe that the Mac is a dying computer, but I believe you all
- > should take a hard look at your motives, and perhaps try to tone down your
- > arguments long enough to see things from other points of view.
- >
- > [end of sermon]
-
- I recall the original message containing hostility and condescention.
- Apparently, it is OK to lambast the Mac with hostility and condescention,
- but not to reply to hostility and condescention with the same. There is a
- word to describe that attitude. I'll let you look it up in your thesaurus.
-