NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/programm/16150

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From: [e-mail] (David Benn)
Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
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I am reminded of the film Name of the Rose - set during the time of the
Inquisition - in which thousands of volumes of books brim-full of wonderful
and sometimes dangerous knowledge, were hidden in a tower by the head of a
monastry owing to his belief that the books contained "forbidden
knowledge".

Sound at all familiar?

It's true that many people don't but their Amigas for "serious" purposes
(whatever they are), and even if they do, don't you think that people
should be given SOME credit for self-discipline? Failing that, what's so
darn catastrophic about playing around at the hardware level sometimes?

Sometimes I think that the attitudes surrounding the maintainance of Amiga
standards border on the paranoid. YES, let's have standards and stick to
them, but for cryin' out loud, don't prevent the distribution of knowledge
in order to achieve this end.


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David Benn - Applied Computing, University of Tasmania at Launceston.
Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
(Albert Einstein)