Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!amdcad!sun!imagen!atari!daisy!turner From: turner@daisy.UUCP (D'arc Angel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari management style Message-ID: <380@daisy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 13:42:28 EDT Article-I.D.: daisy.380 Posted: Fri Jul 17 13:42:28 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 18:40:11 EDT References: <8706241904.AA03975@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <771@atari.UUCP> <239@unx1.UUCP> Organization: The Houses of the Holy Lines: 36 Keywords: Tramiels, competence In article <239@unx1.UUCP>, qsfa1@unx1.UUCP (Graham Thomas) writes: > In article <771@atari.UUCP> dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes: +--------------------------------------------------------- + > I don't give a damn about saving + >Atari's face -- but I *do* care about the quality of the software on + >the ST. Again, it is stalled somewhere in management, so get out your + >book of stamps and start writing.... + + Thanks for some plain speaking, Landon. Does anyone else share my feelings + that Atari's top management don't deserve the good work that's being done + by some of their employees? Don't the bosses worry at all when people like + + + + -- + Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK + JANET: qsfa1@uk.ac.sussex.unx1 EARN/BITNET: qsfa1@unx1.sussex.ac.uk + UUCP: ..mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!unx1!qsfa1 Phone: +44 273 686758 +--------------------------------------------------------- there seems to be a difference between this generation of 'valley movers and machers' and the last. The first generation was interested in making companies, this generation seems to be interested in making money. Unless Leonard learns how to say 'software developement' and soon, I suspect that he's going to be spending a lot of time interviewing new programmers. can you say 'software makes hardware hapeen' ? I knew you could. P.S. please email flames to me, there's enough noise on the net as is, i'll post the 'best' of the flames. -- C'est la vie, C'est la guerre, C'est la pomme de terre {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,seismo!ihnp4,ucbvax}!nsc!daisy!turner Jim Turner Daisy Systems, 700 E. Middlefield Rd, P.O. Box 7006, Mountain View CA 94039-7006. (415)960-0123