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Re: Praise and gripes about 3.0

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From: Zenon Fortuna
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:10
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In article <1992Sep28.142202.28576@cube.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
>In article <5181@rosie.NeXT.COM> Brian_Pinkerton@next.com (Brian Pinkerton)  
>writes:
>> In article <1992Sep24.140404.22842@cube.handheld.com>  
>> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
>> > I was not able to attend the dev conf.  Does this mean we must have
>> > and believe 'inside' info, from one slide, over the public
>> > announcements?  Given that, how can we beleive anything NeXT says?
>> > It's all "marketing hype" in the end!
>> 
>> If I were you, I'd believe an engineer's inside info 10 times more often  
>> than I believed any marketing info.  This goes for any company, not just  
>> NeXT.  The nice thing about NeXT is that the marketing line is a lot  
>> closer to the truth than at other large computer companies.
>> 
>Well, thank you for admitting your marketing dept lies.
>standard practice does not forgive it.

Sorry to protest, but from the statement "...is a lot closer to the truth..."
you cannot conclude that the person is lying.	:)

	-Z.
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From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna)
Subject: Re: Praise and gripes about 3.0
Message-ID: <1992Sep28.151059.8225@resonex.com>
Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA
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