Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!labrea!rocky!ali From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore public relations Message-ID: <410@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 12:17:09 EDT Article-I.D.: rocky.410 Posted: Sat Jul 11 12:17:09 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 16:42:42 EDT References: <8707110358.AA14196@unisoft.UNISOFT> Reply-To: ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer) Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 23 In article <8707110358.AA14196@unisoft.UNISOFT> doug@certes.UUCP writes: >Commodore's public relations policies in other areas however, sometimes seem >to be much less enlightened. My last posting pointed out that boondoggles >with products like LIVE, Sidecar, Transformer 1.2, Genlock, and U.S. sales >of the 500 and 2000 can be alienating... Was 500 really all that much delayed? It became available at the end of June --- That's just a few weeks (or maybe a month) later than what was originally speculated. About Live! --- Didn't Commodore let go of the product a long while back? Thus they have no control over what happens to it (especially right now). And maybe they gave it up for something better? >... You buy a MacIntosh, you *naturally* get MacWrite and MacPaint. ... These days it's "you buy a Macintosh and you go pirate MacWrite and MacPaint off of your friends." I don't think these two programs are bundled with the machine anymore; they are seperate products. They must be among the most pirated programs in existence. (As most people seem to feel they have a right to these programs...) Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu