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- From: g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis)
- Subject: Re: "IBM is listening." How? (was Re: IBM won't accept Internet...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.052948.7813@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:29:48 GMT
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- gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- >dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine) writes:
- >>The good news is
- >>that your complaints are getting very direct, unfiltered exposure to
- >>the people who can fix it.
- >>David W. Levine -- dwl@watson.ibm.com -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- >> -- My Opinions, IBM's hardware. --
- >>"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
- >>aim" - George Santayana
- >
- >I am very glad to hear this. But what exactly do you mean? Do the
- >programmers of OS/2 read this group? If so, why don't we ever hear
- >from them? Even if not them, then someone else. It would be nice
-
- OK, let's just be a bit fair here though. We have seen posts here at
- comp.os.os2.misc. The credits screen of GA lists BJ Hargrave as one of
- the people involved in the development of OS/2 and he/she has posted a few
- highly-technical responses to queries, i.e. 'What is PaulDev?' On the
- other hand, I do agree that a little bit more presence from IBM techical
- gurus and decision-makers wouldn't hurt at all. On the contrary, it
- would make our time more valuable. (What about their time?)
-
- >once in a while to know what involved people think of all our "OS/2
- >should do this" and "why does/doesn't OS/2 do that?" comments. As I
- >have said here before, it would be encouraging to IBM's sophisticated
- >customers (sophisticated == serious enough about computers in general
- >and OS/2 in particular to read this group or similar groups on CI$) to
- >know that they are listening. Assigning some people to maintain an
- >"official" presence on these groups would be good for customer
- >confidence. (Hiring Mr. Timothy Sipples full time to do this would
- >be a good start... :-)
-
- It is awfully nice though to know that Mr. Soyring actually takes time
- away from what I believe to be a very challenging carrer, i.e. squarring
- off with a monopoly, and listens in on the needs of IBM's paying
- customers.
-
- > --Ethan Gershon
- > gershon@husc.harvard.edu
-
- Nick.
-
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