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- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: I am NOT making this up, OK? (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
- Date: 20 Dec 1992 00:28:06 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) says:
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- >In article <1992Dec17.195300.4758@news2.cis.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
- >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.
- >
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- Yeah, how would you know you would meet with people that were clearly
- unprofessional. I wonder if any of them even shook your hand when you
- walked into the place?
-
- >>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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- Their loss Dave... THEIR loss.
-
- >--
- >dmb@ai.mit.edu MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- >ADVENTIONS: interactive fiction (text adventures) for the 90's!
- >dmb@ai.mit.edu *** Compu$erve: 76440,2671 *** GEnie: ADVENTIONS
- >
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