khayo@sonia.cs.ucla.edu (Erazm J. Behr) (11/22/87)
In article <34557@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >Was anyone else disgusted by Steve Bobker's editorial in the latest MacUser? (numerous justified complaints deleted) I also was a subscriber & quit for similar reasons. Now I glance at it occasionally, and I noticed the following: a while ago (1/2 year ?) they reviewed Turbo Pascal - I have it, so I read the review with some interest. They even gave it 4.5 stars out of 5, not bad. Since then I've been looking at the "capsule" reaviews in the back ("minifinders" they call it ?) & Turbo hasn't shown up to this day! A question: does anyone know what the story is? Is MacUser out to get Borland? Is it plain incompetence? Has Borland requested this for some bizarre reason? I'm puzzled. Eric (correct address below) ----------------------------------------------------------- >>>>---------------> khayo@MATH.ucla.edu
omh@nancy (Owen M. Hartnett) (11/26/87)
In article <9361@shemp.UCLA.EDU> khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Erazm J. Behr) writes: >In article <34557@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >>Was anyone else disgusted by Steve Bobker's editorial in the latest MacUser? >(numerous justified complaints deleted) > >I also was a subscriber & quit for similar reasons. Now I glance at >it occasionally, and I noticed the following: a while ago (1/2 year ?) >they reviewed Turbo Pascal - I have it, so I read the review with some >interest. They even gave it 4.5 stars out of 5, not bad. Since then I've >been looking at the "capsule" reaviews in the back ("minifinders" they >call it ?) & Turbo hasn't shown up to this day! A question: does anyone >know what the story is? Is MacUser out to get Borland? Is it plain >incompetence? Has Borland requested this for some bizarre reason? I'm >puzzled. Eric (correct address below) They've done the same thing to me. Although my product didn't get reviewed by itself, but instead in an article with other educational software, I was among the highest rated programs. Of course, they didn't put my product (Kieran) in the minifinder. However, the next issue they bemoaned (in two articles) the alleged dearth of quality educational software. I sincerely believe that they looked at the minifinder and counted the number of programs that they saw there. In addition, they also "lost" an article I sent to them. Owen Hartnett Brown University Computer Science omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET omh%cs.brown.edu@relay.cs.net-relay.ARPA {ihnp4,allegra}!brunix!omh