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- From: gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: "IBM is listening." How? (was Re: IBM won't accept Internet...)
- Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis
- Message-ID: <gershon.725238130@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:02:10 GMT
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- os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:
-
- >No one does, although Dave Whittle has formal responsibility for Compu$erve.
- >I find it hard to believe that IBM continues to ignore a network as large as
- >the Internet, but then again, I also found it hard to believe that it took
- >them so long to get any marketing going so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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- It's more than just the Internet's size that makes it important (though
- that is important) it is the net's audience.
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- It seems to me that comp.os.os2, for example, is populated with some
- of OS/2's most dedicated and descriminating users. We do all this
- testing and thinking about OS/2 for free... seems a wasteful business
- decision for IBM to not pay more attention to our complaints, suggestions,
- discoveries, etc.
-
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
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