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
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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