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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: Thank you Darek for your support of the ST
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.190008.22539@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <1216@tekgen.bv.tek.com> <267@artech.UUCP> <1992Sep5.050140.20906@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 19:00:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep5.050140.20906@athena.cs.uga.edu> kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
- >In article <267@artech.UUCP> clint@artech.UUCP (Clinton Keith) writes:
- >>
- >>Darek has a vested interest in seeing that as few people as possible continue to
- >>buy Atari equipment. He has produced a PC product, and he'd like to sell it
- >>to as many people as he can. Who is he going to sell this too? People that
- >>are switching over to the PC from Atari who whould still like to use some
- >>of their old ST software. If they go over to the Falcon instead of a PC, he
- >>loses business.
-
- This shows that he has a "vested interest" in denigrating the Falcon.
- The fact that he COULD be correct gets obscured by this...
-
- >>Let the buyer beware. If you think Atari claims and service are
- >>bad, be prepared for worse with this guy. You don't have to conduct
- >>a survey to find plenty of people who have been burned by him. He's
- >>bailed on Atari. He's sold his Quick ST software rights to Codehead,
- >>and is a PC developer now.
-
- Better that than to just run out on us! At least he sold QST to
- someone reputable - he could have dropped it just as easily. I think
- EVERYBODY won in the QST/Warp 9 changeover.
-
- >It's a good thing he sold Quick ST to the Codeheads after screwing
- >everyone over with his own last VERY buggy version. I'd like to
- >reiterate that "buyer beware" warning concerning Darek and BraSoft.
- >Talk about an attitude!? Sheesh!
-
- I think that Darek would get a LOT further if he could sometimes just
- clamp his mouth (keyboard?) shut, and say NOTHING. Unfortunately, he
- has a tendancy to try to add some "political" content to his
- advertising, which tends to be self-defeating. He's definitely a
- skilled programmer (polished might be a different story). He's
- produced quite a lot of USEFUL software. It's too bad that he keeps
- shooting himself in the foot by denigrating Atari users. I think he
- missed that lesson about "If you can't say anything nice, don't say
- anything at all!"
-
- It's certainly bad for marketing!
-
- --
- Christopher Browne
- cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca
- University of Ottawa
- Master of System Science Program
-