Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!imspw6!bob From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: An advertisement I'd like to see Message-ID: <144@imspw6.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 02:54:56 GMT Organization: IMS Inc., Rockville, MD Lines: 45 From Ted Holden at HTE: Is anybody from Tandy, Dell, Compaq. etc. etc. out there with their ears on?? I get sick at my stomach watching IBM's LCD (least-common-denominator) Mash ads on TV, and it bothers me that I don't see any advertising from clone makers. The following is more or less an idea for an advertisement which I would like to see on television someday soon, patterned after the ads which Lee Iacocca does for Chrysler. The ad begins with Mr. X, the president of Clones Inc. standing center-stage, a Larson E. Pettifogger character (obviously a lawyer) on his right, and another character, (obviously a scientist), on his left. "Hello, I'm John X, president of Clones Incorporated. Here at Clones Incorporated, we have lawyers (nods at Larson E. Pettifogger who smiles) and engineers (nods at the engineer who smiles) just like most of our competitors. What I'm here to tell the world is that, here at Clones Incorporated, our lawyers fight legal battles and our engineers design computers, which is the way it should be (lawyer and engineer both nod agreement). Now, some of our competitors seem to have gotten away from this basic rule of technical management these days; they've been having their lawyers design their computers, because their basic objective is to produce computers which cannot legally be copied or cloned". "We at Clones Incorporated beleive this is bad for the industry, and bad for you, the customer. It drives prices up, and it limits innovation as well as access to the field and, ultimately, weakens America's competitive position in the world. We at Clones Incorporated will never do business that way; our lawyers will ALWAYS handle legal matters and our Engineers will ALWAYS design our computers. We will ALWAYS try to provide you the customer with high quality, cost effective computer solutions, based on open systems and standards. Thank you" Ted Holden HTE