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- From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: I am NOT making this up, OK? (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 20:29:16 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In article <1992Dec17.195300.4758@news2.cis.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
- >Personally, if *I* arranged a meeting with people at Atari, and *I* spent my
- >own funds to get there to demonstrate a software package, *I* would want to
- >call the shots as to who *I* wanted to talk with ... and if Atari decided that
- >the appropriate people to speak with were, to me, inappropriate, I would have
- >told them so.
-
- And if *you* were Bill Gates meeting with IBM about MS-DOS, *you*
- wouldn't have allowed yourself to be jerked around so much or signed
- such a binding agreement with them -- *you* would have walked out and
- blown the deal upon which an empire was built.
-
- The simple fact is that when you're trying to sell something to a much
- larger company, you do it on their terms rather than blow the deal,
- regardless of what those terms might be. In a perfect world, an
- enterprising small company with a good product would be on equal
- bargaining ground with a large computer company. But it doesn't
- work that way in practice.
-
- Besides all that, we were told that we'd be meeting with the
- "Falcon Game Devlopment Team." Seemed logical enough to us. We
- had no reason to expect the irrational spectacle we encountered,
- and therefore had no reason to be paranoid.
-
- >Of course, all *I* was wondering in my posting was what the hell LYNX
- >programmers were doing in a meeting discussing a set of Atari ST/Falcon
- >programming libraries. [How Atari can feel that people who sit at Amigas all
- >day programming for hand-held game machines are capable of programming games
- >for the Falcon is beyond me...]
-
- And, as you answered for yourself, it's because we were too stupid to
- make sure the right people would be in the meeting. Our fault.
- Right?
-
- Dave Baggett
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