Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead. News at 11:00. Message-ID: <70607@sun.uucp> Date: 28 Sep 88 16:36:43 GMT References: <3060@hubcap.UUCP> <70319@sun.uucp> <2696@sugar.uu.net> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Distribution: na Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 18 In article <70319@sun.uucp>, (Chuck McManis) I wrote: -> And what is important is that when Jerry says -> it, 200,000 stupid people read it and say "I won't buy that program, my -> buddy Jerry can't even figure out the copy protection on it." In article <2696@sugar.uu.net> (Peter da Silva) writes: ->Since these 200,000 people aren't buying Amigas anyway, why the hell should ->we care whether or not they listen to Jerry? I never said you should care, only that he is the figure head of a much larger herd. The bottom line being that if you listen to what he says and make a program that he can understand and use, then you will have a better product for it. That's all --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.