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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead.  News at 11:00.
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Date: 28 Sep 88 16:36:43 GMT
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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
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.