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On 1/08/93 Shag said:
>johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
>
>>GEOS is the name of the system and does *NOT* stand for anything.
>
>So it HAS been changed.  Quoting the cover of my GEOS 2.0 manual (that's
>*Commodore* GEOS 2.0, folks ;) -
>
>"GEOS(TM)  Graphic Environment Operating System"
>
>I guess when Berkeley Softworks became Geoworks, it sold itself the rights
>to the name GEOS, then promptly got rid of whatever it stood for. ;)
>
>>But why would anyone want to run much slower on much more expensive
>>hardware and that has a shorter battery life?  :-? :-)
>
>Simple, John.  To balance out the technosadists like myself who enjoy
>torturing software, the world needs an equivalent number of technomasochists
>who enjoy being tortured by software.  (Bill Gates' secret fetish... ;)
>
>>The System Software Overview has been completely rewritten and was not done
>>in GeoWrite (I don't know why not either).  And no it won't be posted
>>electronically.
>
>Feh.  Foo.  Bar.  Baz.  I suppose if I bought it then typed it in (using
>GeoWrite) and uploaded it, they'd be rather upset, too.  (Although somehow
>I suspect the SSO is not responsible for a significant chunk of Geoworks'
>revenue...)
>
>-Shag
                       Shag,
                            I can tell you in one word,GREED. I can see
   the day coming when the "public" exchange of information will come
   to and end. ie no more libraries. You will only be able get information
   " knowledge" if you pay for it. Maybe I read too much science fiction
   but I see signs of it already.
                 Propritary knowledge is one thing but information that has
   no  effect on a companies  sales of a product is another.  Another beef  I
   have are bugs, a lot of companies that publish software are not very forth-
   coming in letting the users know this information. They would rather sell us
   a new and usually more expensive version, and the tell us that they fixed
   the bugs from the previous version in the newest one.
                Considering we do not really "own" most software we purchase
   I feel    that Geoworks and other companies could do lots better in after
   "purchase" support.

                                         Harold Climer
                                         Physics Dept.
                                         U. Tennessee at Chattanooga