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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Buying more market share for the Amiga
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.215109.12690@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Keywords: Lotus
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 21:51:09 GMT

In article <1991Jun30.193205.8985@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) writes:
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>In article <25761@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:
>>>es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>>
>>>>	How would you know how much WordPerfect charged? It isn't
>>>>public information.
>>>
>>>But it is public information.  WP, even if they haven't quoted the exact
>
>>[....] but there is no direct reason to
>>believe Commodore paid the WHOLE cost of the port! 
>
>I never said Commodore paid $.01, only that it cost WP Corp. $X to port
>WP.  I believe the discussion was along the lines 'would it be worthwhile
>to port product XXX given its expected sales?'  I certainly don't think
>1-2-3 would sell nearly as well as WordPerfect.
>
	Somewhere way back in the trail of this message (way way
back 8) someone made the point that if Commodore paid SuperBase
to make the port, why couldn't they have paid Lotus. And then
someone brought up Commodore having paid WordPerfect. That's what
I was trying to respond to. Of course, I've probably lost the
thread by now... 8-)

>BTW, I tried to email you (Ethan), but for some reason my machine doesn't know
>about your machine :)  routeto also isn't working here.  If you give me
>your bang address I'll send it that route.
>
	That's wierd, Columbia is directly on the internet. There
might've just been a problem that night. I see you're a .edu as
well. Try it again. If there is a problem then something is wrong
on your end (or there is a REAL long problem going on). I haven't
noticed any down time from my end.
	-- Ethan

FF buckets of bits on the bus,	FF buckets of bits.
Take one down,			Short it to ground,
FE buckets of bits on the bus.

