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Subject: Re: LIVE paleontology
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Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 01:51:35 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 18 01:51:35 1987
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George Robbins recently wrote:
>I'm sorry if Paul's response was unsatisfactory or seemed abrasive, but it
>really isn't within the perogatives of the technical/support people from
>Commodore that post to usenet to posit theories about why management made
>some particular product decision.
> ...
>This is not a particularly pleasant piece of evasiveness to post, but please
>try to understand our situation...

That's fine, George, in fact I did understand that. Recall that I didn't
demand that CBM respond...I posted a rumor that CBM seemed to be at fault,
and Paul volunteered that he didn't think I should say anything about the
subject. I won't hold it against him, but it is a patently ridiculous response.

Although some may disagree, I *still* think that a really powerful CEO
would have gotten a digitizer on the market come hell or high water, and
if LIVE didn't fit the bill, a brand new one could've been designed from
scratch with a few months. Since that didn't happen, there was a clear case
of myopia in top management...somebody didn't notice how important a product
it could be for launching the Amiga.

So even if it was A-Squared's technical problems or something that caused
the delay, I still fault CBM as well for not taking *care* of the problem.
Passing the buck (by action, not verbally) is not good enough. Results count,
and the Amiga market has lost revenues. (Note that when I say pass the buck,
I'm not talking about assigning blame, which everyone has carefully avoided
doing, I mean taking it upon oneself to get something done, regardless of
problems.)
	Doug Merritt		{ucbvax,sun}!unisoft!certes!doug