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From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Subject: Apple on the net (was Re: 32 bit roms)
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.053126.18439@news.media.mit.edu>
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References: <53349@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May29.011256.28849@news.media.mit.edu> <FRANCIS.91Jun6144251@daisy.uchicago.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 05:31:26 GMT

In article <FRANCIS.91Jun6144251@daisy.uchicago.edu> francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
>In article <1991May29.011256.28849@news.media.mit.edu> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>
>>Perhaps part of the attitude of the people who post here is due exactly to the
>>fact that nobody who's equipped to do anything about the problems we discuss
>>reads netnews?  If Mr. Sculley would take the time out of his day (it doesn't
>>take all that long, after all) to read netnews, he might realize that there
>
>Excuse me, but what news do you read that "doesn't take that long?"
>
> [mentions that he spends 45+ minutes on c.s.m.* with gnus daily]
>
>I do feel that Apple should hire somebody specifically to represent
>them on the various nets (maybe they could take on the FTP site, make
>it official), but the CEO is not the person to do that.

Please note that I made this exact suggestion about a paragraph below where
you cut me off up above.  :-)  Point taken, though.  The CEO isn't the one to
do it.

While I don't spend as much time on netnews as you do, I agree that Apple
should hire somebody to keep his/her fingers on the pulse of the nets.

I maintain that people probably flame here because they see Apple as an
insensitive corporate monolith rather than a "Computer for the Rest of Us"
company.  This is NOT true of the development guys, who are, judging from
those I've met, really cool.  As for management, well, I'll let their record
speak.

