From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:21:26 GMT

pepin@CAM.ORG (Jean Pepin) writes:
: You don't understand that the essence of my intervention is for blame you (a
: CBM employee) to doubt about Marc Barrett affirmation, you are not in the
: position of impartiallity and you prove that with your affirmation to keep
: some confidentiality. I know and understand i cannot obtain that kind of

Neither is Marc Barrett:  He is a developer, and under NDA.  He is
nowhere near "impartial", as anyone here could probably say.

And he's lost much of his credibility.

: information from CBM, but i'm (and many other peoples) are interrested about
: confidetial information giving some hints in the way CBM go. We are a user
: group and the priority for me is to protect the consumer this is why the
: information from an impartial MB is most credible than a Salesmam full of
: secrets (ie: Pink Floyd).

Like I said.  If you're told that he's wrong, then to trust him
anyways would be foolish.  MB first stated that CDTV was dead.  It
obviously isn't.  MB then went on to say that AmigaVision hadn't been
updated in so long that it was probably being dropped, and that C= was
just being sneaky about trying to drop it.  Then he was told here that
it was being rewritten.  Shot down again, I guess.

What's next?

: Now for the part of technical detail, CBM fail that way too. When you see an
: announcement from CBM last time, no, not a mouth to ear announcement to a WOC
: or WOA cheapo sunday Sesame Street Gamer Crazy price cutter from James Dionne
: but a real announcement like Apple told Newsbyte many times. I consider Apple
:a serious company and they exist and they alive, because i receive information
: about Apple, not only the good one but some time like "Apple sue XYZ". 

I'm not sure if you want printed press releases from C= or lawsuits
against other companies.  Suffice to say that they do release things
with large announcements:  But nothing has been really "announced" yet.

: Again you cannot prove the thruth by your position you are not credible, let
: the impartial people judging. 

He is absolutely credible.  If he says something, he probably means
it.  And he's not here, to put it bluntly, in "official capacity"--he
doesn't represent C=, neither do the other C= employees who happen to
coexist with the rest of the usenet.  His facts are no less credible
than those given by Marc Barrett.

My advice to you is to not believe anything you read without
considering the facts.  And people that WORK at C= are more likely
going to be much more credible about the facts they divulge--they get
their facts about their company at the source.  Anything Marc knows
about C= he knows either through rumors and press releases, which he
speaks of, or through developer's channels, which he does not speak
of, and cannot.

And nobody is impartial.  Nobody is innocent.  And these days, nobody
is intelligent.  :)

Greg

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