bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) (03/02/91)
In article <05e5X2w164w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) writes: >I'd like to reiterate a side of the whole MusicProse thread going on here. > >CODA has suspended development on the NeXT platform to concentrate on the >IBM platform. In a very "real world" sense this is a good move. There are a >lot of installed DOS machines and getting a return on your R&D right away is >likely to be an easier task. A hell of a lot of users here seem to have >taken up the cause of begging CODA and it's wayward CEO to return to the ^^^^ >NeXT. I say good ridance to them and lets move on. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ > > >Why did you buy a NeXT? > >Did you buy it becuase you wanted to be compatible with a huge installed ^^^^^^^ >base of users? > >Did you buy it because it offers you a choice of thousands of software >packages, as near as your local major drug store/software dealer/Sears/etc? > >Did you buy it becuase it was one of the least expensive systems available ^^^^^^^ >(ignoring price/performance ratios)? > >No. > >You bought a NeXT to share in the vision of a superior computer and >computing environment. We have all put our faith in Mr Jobs, and put our ^^ >money behind him and those others that share the vision. We want something >better and we are willing to go out on a limb for it. We are not prepared to >let computing technology sit still. We want the future and we want it NOW. > > >So why in hell's name are we begging, and I do mean begging, CODA to >"puullleeezz" come back into the fold. One of the few nice things about this >industry is that if someone makes a dumb move, there are often a handfull of ^^^^^^^^ >young hotshots out there just waiting to fill in the gap and knock the "old >men" out of the game. > >I, for one, feel that if CODA is going to abandon the NeXT for the IBM >market--a platform that is perhaps the WORST platform for creating music >currently available--then let them go and bring me someone with the >"vision". > > >My diginity is fully intact, I have faith that if CODA wants to abandon us, ^^^^^^^^ This was the one I couldn't resist. :-) I just *have* to know. Is "diginity" a cross between "dignity" and "virginity"? If so, then should we congratulate you or extend our condolences to you that it is fully intact? :-) Seriously, now, if you have a NeXT, did you delete your copy of Digital Webster? If you're using any kind of UNIX system, do you not have spell(1) available? Normally, I don't post comments on the spelling or grammar of other people. I gave up hope long ago that computer users would ever become literate, although it shouldn't be *too* unreasonable to ask that they let their *computers* help them. *BUT*, ;-) "diginity" was just too good to pass up. ;-) >then someone else will be willing to beat them at their own game. Two years >from now "Finale for Windows" might sell reasonably well for CODA, but they >will no longer have the "hotest music software going". I'm dying to see who ^^^^^^ >it is that will. > > >I guess this is a challenge. The competition isn't looking, if you are a >developer with an interest in the project, please pick it up and make us all >happy and restore the pride we seem to be in danger of losing. This is a >chance for you, mr developer without a cause, to make your mark. Kick some ^^ >MIDI ass. > > > > ########################################################################## > asmith@questor.uucp The Chameleon Papers - Vancouver, BC CANADA > Graphic Artist - Bad Mood Guy - NeXT user > (The last two are in no way related) > ########################################################################## > "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" (Evil Dead II) Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "WAR is the HEALTH of the STATE" --Albert Jay Nock (I think:-) * **********************************************************************
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) (03/02/91)
NO! A SPELLING FLAME! HIDE!
cafe@cbnewse.att.com (richard.dib) (03/05/91)
> > > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > Systems Programming > Northern Illinois University > DeKalb, Illinois 60115 > ********************************************************************** > * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * > * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * > *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > * "WAR is the HEALTH of the STATE" --Albert Jay Nock (I think:-) * > ********************************************************************** A Weebstern in the NeXT! 4 juat? I dun't nid it! I haf nevir jad an eror in juat I wrrite! Ani-uay, ju kares! I gues YOU du! Well Scoot, yu beter nut make ani mistkes. Reember that yu ar our speling idol. Richard Dib AT&T BL PS Haf fun corectting thiss one!