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In article <1993Dec7.184826.15665@gallant.apple.com>,
David Casseres  <casseres@apple.com> wrote:
>In article <CHMB0z.ALE@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Jon Gefaell,
>jeg7e@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU writes:
>>NCSA is not some private corporation, you do realize this don't you? It is
>>paid for by the taxpayers money and should be responsive to the needs of the
>>community it is intended for. If those people (your underwriters and audience)
>>are complaining, you need to hear that and respond. If you want to do your
>>own thing then start your own company with your own capital. In the meantime
>>you work for us. 
>>
>>There are very valid reasons that we don't want to spend our money having
>>people like you develop for a platform that will require us to spend even
>>more money on Yet Another Library. There may be reasons that you feel you
>>need to do so anyways... These should be communicated effectively and without
>>insults of the type you sling about to your paying customers/clients..
>
>Why, those rat fink bastards at NCSA!  They developed Mosaic to run only on
>the platforms THEY chose, so if you have a TRS-80 or an Amiga or an Apple III,
>and you want to run Mosaic, you have to go out and spend YOUR money and BUY
>one of the platforms THEY chose to support!  Heinous!  Inexcusable!  They
>should have used the taxpayers' money to support these systems, and besides,
>they should have reimplemented Motif or at least done the extra work to avoid
>using anything that isn't FREE.  And then they had the gall to give Mosaic
>away for FREE!  And then, after being abused for a few days by a bunch of
>incredibly well-informed, mature, courteous, reasonable, rational people on
>the Net, one of them was so unbelievably ill-bred as to complain about it!
>
>Call in Jesse Helms, these people are as bad as (insert your favorite artistic
>villain here).  Cut their funding.  Send them to Somalia.  Make them write
>everything in Basic and Fortran.  Make them support Mosaic on HyperCard and in
>Excel macros.  That'll teach those smartass SOB's a lesson and remind them of
>whom they are working for.

You obviously have a personal agenda to promote instead of trying to understand
what I wrote. Unfortunate. I specificaly mentioned that there are reasons to
promote either side of the argument, but that the insults hurled by the Mosaic
developer were heinous and counter to the mission of NCSA.

I've gotten tons of flames for what I said but I stand by it. Religious
Zealots with nothing more than Jihad on their minds can use my /dev/flame
(a humorous? link to /dev/null) :)
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