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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2536 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2537 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!barrnet.net!oz.cdrom.com!oz.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX! Date: 25 Sep 1994 15:25:07 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CD-ROM Lines: 29 Message-ID: <JKH.94Sep25082507@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <CwoFuL.ID7@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: scheidel@gate.net's message of Sun, 25 Sep 1994 09:34:56 GMT In article <CwoFuL.ID7@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> scheidel@gate.net () writes: Why settle for slow and obselete Unix such as UnixWare, Sun Solaris, SCO, Linux or BSD when you can have POWER & RELIABILITY with QNX 4.21! Stop playing games with these inferior o/s's and switch to QNX today. Folks, don't flame - just look, listen and observe the excellent object lesson this fellow provides us - It's rare that you get such a beautifully textbook case to work with and we really ought to thank him! Fellow students of Network U, listen carefully and heed my words: THIS is what happens when you allow the technical department to write the advertising copy! It is a well-known truism that you never, never, ever allow the junior technical staff to do this! This is exactly what happens! Reduced marketshare, rapid occurance of technical comparison exclusively in the class of `Genitaleous Comparitatus' and massive reverse feedback are almost always follow-on effects, and there are sometimes long-term complications as well should the original copy-writer attempt to reassert credibility by removing large portions of their own frontal lobe and attempt to `reply' to any ensuing thread. Do not encourage this! Leave marketing to those who have, at the minimum, a basic grasp of `markets' and `people', not someone who hasn't really seen the sun or generally participated in society since 1973! Jordan