Via: uk.ac.open; Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:42:53 +0100
Original-Sender: J.A.Lay@open.ac.uk
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.i-amiga
Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:43:41 +0000
From:         Jeffery Lay <J.A.Lay@OPEN.AC.UK>
Subject:      An alternative view...
X-To:         I-Amiga@rutvm1.rutgers.edu

The following is half serious only :-)
It was a reply to me from a friend who I've converted from an Amiga-hater
to an 'Amiga is OK I suppose, but has some bad points, like Commodores
management' -er.

>>You can help manage the negative public perception Mr. Robinson's
>>article has created by taking action with your local broadcast and
>>print media.  Please consider doing the the following:
>>
>>1)  Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper that ran the
>>    Robinson article.  Correct the record.  Use some of the message
>>    points we've provided.  Voice your strong objection to the
>>    one-sided and ridiculous suggestion that Amiga and Commodore
>>    have no future.
>
>     This from the manufacturers of the a600?
>>
>>2)  Send a copy of your letter to the editor directly to Phillip
>>    Robinson.  His address is P.O. Box 1357, Sausolito, CA  94966
>>    (as printed in the San Jose Mercury News).
>
>     And who said commodore were ecologically friendly?
>
>>3)  If you wish, voice your opinion to Mr. Robinson by leaving a
>>    voice-mail message for him at (415) 289-9498.  Do this in the
>>    next seven days so you have impact on his follow-up article.
>
>     Lynch mob time?
>
>>Here are the primary message points that Commodore hopes to get across
>>to Mr. Robinson.  Perhaps you can include some of them in your letters
>>to the editor:
>>
>> *   Commodore is a one billion dollar company.
>
>     So is Andrex
>
>> *   There are more that three million Amigas installed worldwide.
>
>     And commodes?
>
>> *   Phillip Robinson's recent article, which talks about a "slow
>>     death" for the Amiga, was written with no input from Commodore.
>
>     You do surprise me!
>
>> *   Commodore is not "killing" the Amiga.  In fact, the company,
>>     and its developer network, currently are working on several
>>     enhancements to the Amiga product line.  Significant product
>>     announcements are planned this Fall at the World of Commodore
>>     show in Pasadena.
>
>     The A600 I suppose. Pass me the shovel, you can carve the tombstone.
>
>Seriously though, the man _did_ have some valid points, whether Commodore
>like it or not. They've just provided a beautiful example of a typical
>attitude; rely on rhetoric, squash people who disagree out of existance.


Regards...

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          Jeffery Lay, Electronic Media Research, Open University, UK.
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