🚀 go-pugleaf

In a previous article, dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) says:

>In article <1992Dec17.195300.4758@news2.cis.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
>The simple fact is that when you're trying to sell something to a much
>larger company, you do it on their terms rather than blow the deal, 
>regardless of what those terms might be.  In a perfect world, an
>enterprising small company with a good product would be on equal
>bargaining ground with a large computer company.  But it doesn't
>work that way in practice.
>
>Besides all that, we were told that we'd be meeting with the
>"Falcon Game Devlopment Team."  Seemed logical enough to us.  We
>had no reason to expect the irrational spectacle we encountered,
>and therefore had no reason to be paranoid.
>


Yeah, how would you know you would meet with people that were clearly
unprofessional.  I wonder if any of them even shook your hand when you
walked into the place?

>>Of course, all *I* was wondering in my posting was what the hell LYNX
>>programmers were doing in a meeting discussing a set of Atari ST/Falcon
>>programming libraries.  [How Atari can feel that people who sit at Amigas all
>>day programming for hand-held game machines are capable of programming games
>>for the Falcon is beyond me...]
>
>And, as you answered for yourself, it's because we were too stupid to
>make sure the right people would be in the meeting.  Our fault.
>Right?
>
>Dave Baggett

Their loss Dave...  THEIR loss.

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