From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Dave Hanie for C= Chairman of Board of Diretors! was Re: LET'S RESCUE T
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:34:43 CDT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <Bs5I3B.AJD@news.udel.edu>, don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R
Lloyd) writes:> 
	<stuff I wrote that didn't get across very well delete>
>
>      Well, maybe those three people are busy developing products and
> don't have time to sit around reading news all the time?  Ever hear of
> SANA-II?  It's not at all unusual to ask a question and only get one
> or two responses; even a few years ago when the net was crawling with
> Amigans and the machine was still way ahead of its competition.  Blaming
> Commodore for a lack of responses isn't very reasonable.
>

I never meant this as a complaint with respect to C= employees.  Those
three guys MUST be working very hard and I can only respect what
efforts they are making and am quite sure they will do something
exceptional, BUT three people??  They didn't go and hire themselves.
Some body chose to ONLY hire THREE people.  The point I was trying to
make was that C= management, who makes hiring decisions and decides
the direction of the company, are making a serious blunder by so
grossly understaffing such an important area of development.

Look at the numbers!  How much was development in raw $ last year?
How much was it down?  These issues are completely foreign to the tech
people who really are the magic of the Amiga.  Such being the case the
clearest soloution to the problem as I perceive it is remove the
offending parties, namely the FIVE members who sit on the board of
directors.  Mark Barrett sent me some posts from around advocay and I
was very surprised to learn that two of the Bd. members I'd heard of
Idy Ameen -) and Mr. Gould but the other was Alexander Haig!  Remember
Mr. War himself.  What can we expect with people like this at the helm.
 
>>Mr. Gould (That's the bosses name right?) bailed out commodore,
>>apparently when noone else would, right?  Well, I think this time the
>>Amiga needs not a bail-out,  IT NEEDS A RESCUE!  AND WE THE AMIGA
>>COMMUNITY ARE JUST THE PEOPLE FOR THE JOB!!
>>
> 
>      Todd R. is a Mac fanatic who only likes the Amiga for the Toaster.
> 
>      In any case, forcing Gould out would be near impossible.  He and his
> cronies (Mehdi Ali, etc.) control too much of the stock for themselves.
> However, our job might be done for us by Gould himself:  I've heard
> that his shares are for sale.  That won't rid us of Mehdi or the others,
> but it's a big step in the right direction.
>

Someone with money surely can reconize the value of a company that
even grossly understaffed and under-R&D'ed (did I coin a new word)not
to mention for all practical purposes unadvertised can show consistent
profits.  We just need ot find that person or persons.  Sony,
Matsushita, Nec, HP, Dec, anyone?  Anyone?
 
>>Oh, BTW, if you're looking to network, the only reasonable soloution
>>is with the amiga implementation of SLIP called AmigaNOS.  AGAIN NOT A
>>C= PRODUCT BUT THE PRODUCT OF ANOTHER BRILLANT MEMBER OF THE AMIGA
>>COMMUNITY. 
> 
>      No, Commodore makes ethernet and arcnet boards as well as TCP/IP
> software, and if I'm not mistaken they also funded some of Oxxi's 
> development of its Amiga Novell Client Software.  And again, the SANA-II
> specification was just recently finished (Standard Amiga Networking
> Architecture); it will likely provide the basis for quite a few
> networking products.
> 

What about 500 networking?  I don't know anyone in the public school
system that has the money to shell out $300 per machine for internet
cards.  I'm sure SANAII will be great (when released sometime after
Mac's have radio tranmitters for networking) but as I read in a post
in datacomm the poors guys are at C= are so busy they were soliciting
help form anyone who wanted to write a driver for the project.  Is
this the new C= professional company?  Skimp on adverstising, R&D, and
people and let everyone else make up for the loss while you stuff your
pockets with a annual $4mil salary?  Seems awfully fishy to me...-);

> 
>      Followups concerning networking to .datacomm.
>      Followups concerning CBM management to .advocacy.
> 
>      (Can we all guess which one will earn more followups? :-)
tee, hee...
> > -- 
> Don Lloyd                / "...my brain IBM; so if you see me acting strangely,\
> don@chopin.udel.edu      \ don't be surprised." - Styx, 'Mr. Roboto'           /
> Gibberish is Spoken Here.          Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork 
>       MicroSoft Slogan: Resistance is Futile.  You Will Be Assimilated.

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