Re: Scotty gets out his flame thrower over ADB

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 08:39

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In article <dillon.0q9s@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    At the moment we have the situation where while NeXT's GUI runs circles
>    around everyone else's, the lack of primo bundled software turns people
>    away from investing it.  Things like Edit and Draw! are cute and all
>    that but provide almost no capability, and that's what users see.

Bullshit!  NeXTSTEP now ships with _LESS_ bundled software than it did
originally, and NeXT is selling more copies/machines than ever before!

NeXTSTEP ships with way more bundled software than ether OS/2,
Macintosh, or Windows, and they are all outselling NeXTSTEP by a very
large margin.

People care about *shrinkwrap* software, and bundled software prevents
the development of shrinkwrap software.

andrew
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From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
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Subject: Re:  Scotty gets out his flame thrower over ADB
Message-ID: <1992Oct29.083938.1398@cubetech.com>
Date: 29 Oct 92 08:39:38 GMT
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