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These are some of the comments I have received on these web pages.
I just thought you might like to know what people are saying. I know I do.
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 02:38:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter W Logan
Subject: What am I doing?
Howdy-Hi,
I happened across your web pages and I love them. Good job! You
ask what I am doing to oppose the MicroSoft Juggernaut.....
Well tonight, for kicks, I went with my PC pals to Best Buy so they
could be some of the firsts to get a real copy of Win95. If you've been
to one recently, Best Buy has these big decals on the floor advertising
Win95 and MicroSoft. I considered my options, and in the end I couldn't
resist urinating on one. I am now forever banned from my local Best
Buy. Oh well.
love
Peter
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 19:41:06 0400
From: "Brian O. Bush"
Hey,
i must confess.
i have (until recently) been a PC user for 9 years, extending back until
my early high school years.
i went to college and majored in math and computer science.
i used to hate macintoshes.
recently, i just got tired of having to change my life so much to fit my
computer. it was 1995. not 1960. so i bought a PowerMac.
Your web page on anti-microsoft is so correct that it makes me laugh
that i used to throw rocks (not really) at people like you.
now i am writing my thesis program (and system) under CodeWarrior and
dream of working for Apple. My mac makes me powerful and happy.
thanks to people like you, i feel free.
thanks, Brian
Brian O. Bush, Guest Researcher
National Institue of Standards and Technology
http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~bushbo
"how was this done..." -SP
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 08:28:22 0000
From: Steve Sullivan
Hi Jon!
To oppose the MS juggernaut, I'm going to put on my "Macintosh. The
features of Windows95 since 1984" t-shirt and, on Thursday, walk into
the Microsoft office here on the 11th floor of 379 Thornall Street in
Edison, NJ, and ask for a data sheet on Windows 95.
Then I'll go back up to the Apple office on the 15th floor and laugh
myself silly.
-Steve Sullivan
K-12 SE
Apple Computer, Inc.
Edison, NJ
X-Personal_Name: Carter Rhodes
From: rrhod01@emory.edu
Jon,
I have just read your article WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO OPPOSE THE MICROSOFT
JUGGERNAUT which was reprinted in the FISHWRAP--the monthly publication
of Atlanta Macintosh Users Group, Inc. I heartily commend you. I work in
an office at Emory that is PC oriented. I find that it is so easy to just
give up, as you say, just to hope things will finally work. But I'm
hoping that eventually I can get a foot in the door, so to speak, by
convincing my boss to let me have a Mac. He is not very happy with the
"DOS box" so who knows, maybe he'll succumb. You see I began my computer
know-how with a Mac Plus, and still use it at home. Then I got to this
office, and began to appreciate the Mac even more. Just when I think
I've nailed down a PC problem, another one comes up. With the Mac it
seems all I have to do is to learn how to use a program. With the PC, I'm
constantly having to learn IT. The Mac just stays out of the way. Oh
well, I know this is boring you, you've heard all this before. But
hopefully, I'm doing what I can to oppose the juggernaut. Thanks again
for the great article and for letting Fishwrap reprint it.
Carter Rhodes
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 00:44:36 +0100 (MET)
From: Erik Olofsen +31 71 263344 / 174049
I complain every day about Windows, but hardly anyone believes me when
I say that it doesn't work, and when they find out that it doesn't work,
they believe that it is just normal and that it is not necessary to have
a better OS, because they don't believe me that there are better OS's.
What more can I do??
From: Trinkos@aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 20:10:31 -0400
Searching for AppleScript resources for my next book I came across your page.
Nice stuff about Microsoft. One thing I didn't see you mention was the vast
level of ignorance in the PC world about the Mac. Saw one comparison in
Network world or some such that showed the Mac as a 16 bit OS while Windows
95 would be a 32bit OS. Cute. Oh well. Keep up the good work.
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 14:23:46 0600
From: "Robert J. Burton"
Subject: So, tell me, what are you doing to oppose the Microsoft juggernaut?
I bought WordPerfect!
From: "Jonathan C. Poet"
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 08:42:02 -0400
Subject: The Microsoft Juggernaut
What am I doing?
Quite simply, I refuse to buy another Microsoft product for as long as
I live. If the mac is still around when I am 90 years old, I'll still
be buying them.
ps- fantastic WWW page.
To: jonpugh@netcom.com (jonpugh@netcom.com)
From: cooper@ms.sjdccd.cc.ca.us (Cooper, Ernie)
Subject: Microsoft juggernaut
I recently visited your anti-microsoft site and let me tell you It was great
you have put great points out about why Microsoft is evil and why Apple is
better. I have been visiting alot of sites about Apple, Macintosh,
Microsoft, Windows, etc. and I'd say that the point is definitly out there.
What with the Advertizements that totally trash Windows95 being published
in magazines. But here is what I'm getting at, the people who are reading
this stuff already know and believe in what is being said. I mean look at a
MACWorld magazine. Full color Macintosh adds that spread out over 4 pages
telling about the improvements in Windows95 and then total blowing it away
with articles and articles about how MACs had this in 1984. But then pick
up a magazine that deals with all kinds of computers PCs and MACs, like New
Media, or Wired. There you see Windows95 on 4 pages just like the MAC add
in MACWorld and you're lucky if you find 1 little insert in the booklet in
the middle of the magazine telling about the PowerMAC 9500(or whatever the
hell it is). My point is why is Apple trying to convince MAC users that the
MAC interface is better than Windows95 when its telling Windows Users what
kind of improvements MAC users can get? Those ads should be reversed. MAC
users should beable to learn about PowerMAC improvements while people who
use Windows should learn that Windows95 sucks in comparison to the
Macintosh interface. MAC users(like myself) already know that Windows95,
and all Windows versions, suck in comparson to the MAC interface so Apple
should be informing Windows users that Windows95 sucks and not to buy it.
Thank you for alowing me to express my opinion.
From,
Nathan Cooper
(USING MY DAD'S EMAIL. I AM NOT ERNIE COOPER!)
______________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 10:22:22 PST
From: Alex Morando
Subject: MS Juggernaut
>>>
So, tell me, what are you doing to oppose the Microsoft juggernaut?
>>>
Personally, I will never buy another Microshaft product again, and I always
tell people why they are truly an Evil Empire(tm), but then, how does one
oppose Windoze in a business environment? MIS departments have become the SS
troops of the MS juggernaut, the front-line soldiers intent on destroying all
competition and innovation in the workplace. The hype around Win95 is amazing -
I have never seen a company with this much influence on the national media.
Mac fanatics should realize that, unless you work in the computer industry, the
choice of computing platform is not worth your job and career. Most in the
corporate world will just go along with what MIS has to say. Our computer
systems are managed by ISSC, a division of IBM - they aren't even pushing OS/2
or IBM hardware! The Apple lemming commercial, although panned, is the truth.
This is something that requries group action, and a lot of help from the Mac
camp, especially from Apple.
Alex Morando
arm@netcom.com
Alex Morando, Engineer-at-large, Space Systems Engineering
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 18:35:09 0800
From: Marc Gumpinger
Subject: Fighting the Microsoft juggernaut
Jon,
in fact you expressed all my thoughts about the position of Microsoft -
I'd double sign your Microsoft Juggernaut document!
I'm only a little student but I try as hard as I can to promote Apple
here in Munich / Germany. When I used to work for a Service Bureau and
got calls from Windows uses who needed help I simply adviced them to buy
a Mac and save a lot of money - and a lot of them did, as I noticed from
the customers lists.
Now that I'm about to study Economics my clear and definitive goal is to
join Apple Germany first and them try to get to Cupertino to fight
Microsoft. In the last few years this turned into something personal for
me.
What I'm doing right now is to build AppleScript based applications with
a very user friendly FaceSpan interface to have something that won't run
with Windows. One example is an ordering system for the University of
Munich (Veterinary Faculty) which completely supports drag and drop,
balloon help etc.
A second project is a set of utilities for QuarkXPress which will most
likely be distributed with XChange. And, hey, this one really won't be
ported to work with QuarkXPress for Windows :}
Thirdly I'm writing the first German-wide series of articles about
AppleScript which covers the language, scriptable applications and
scripting additions and not only examples thereof.
cheers
Marc
Internet: a2c0195@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de
CIS: 100114,2165
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 18:13:30 0700
From: Arnold Engelmann
Jon,
I really liked your home page! I especially liked all the articles on
Why You Should Buy a Mac. I have a tough time arguing with my co-workers
about the merits of the Macintosh, since they are so clueless as to what
a Mac can really do.
Arnold Engelmann
ESRI intern
Redlands, CA
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 95 00:31:46 0400
From: David Neidorf
Subject: anti microsoft
I agree with you. The Mac has alot more to offer and much less hassels.
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:15:34 -0500
From: jscalhoun@mail.utexas.edu (J.Scott Calhoun)
Subject: fellow member Mac Advocates Local 151
Just a note to commend you on your Web pages. Not only do you
speak the gospel truth (Book of Jobs), but you do so in a clear, concise
manner unlike some Radical Mac Fundamentalists I know. I too have used
other platforms and have gotten results, but not nearly as easy and fast as
with a Mac. I'm a recent convert and couldn't be happier. In the beginning
of my Macintosh conversion I didn't understand all the deep animosity
toward Microsoft. Then I witnessed Word 6.0 and the new Excel/Office; I was
stunned. Now I fully support the jihad against Microsoft. I'm also the
happy owner of WordPerfect 3.1
Thanks again and have a great day! Keep up the good work at Apple.
Scott
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 09:34:43 0600
From: Atreyu Svoren
Subject: What am I doing?
Hi. I thoroughly enjoyed your web pages. I don't remember how I got here, but
it's now a permanent bookmark, so who cares? I currently manage 30 Macs in a
corporate publishing environment. The rest of the computers in the company are
PC's, about 300. I have managed to get a PowerPC 7100 installed in the
Financial Analysis division. This was a major breakthrough. They're happy
campers now. Regarding Microsoft in general, I have come to the following
conclusion. Microsoft Headquarters is in fact the site of the "black lodge".
For those unaware, the black lodge is a major part of the Twin Peaks saga.
Apparently a very evil place. Emanating from the black lodge is "Bob", evil in
its truest form. Bob invades and possesses the free spirits of this world and
corrupts them beyond all help. Whether Bill Gates is "Bob" remains to be seen.
But he is sly and cunning and should be watched carefully. As Macintosh users,
we should not turn our backs on Microsoft, but be keenly aware of its every
move. Windows 95, which I have used, is a perfect example. Every Macintosh
user should become familiar with it, they should touch it, feel it, use it,
and learn it. They must know the face of evil in order to fight it. Do not
under-estimate this lowly piece of software. It will lead to clear vision of
the future, but a future both dark and forboding.
Anyways, these are my thoughts, this 30th day of August, 1995, at 3:34 AM in
the morning. Keep up the good work.
Atreyu Svoren
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 17:28:41 0000
From: tdrago
I could not have said it better myself. Great article! I wish Apple
would take a more aggressive attack on Microsoft. Yes I've seen the ads
in MacWorld and MacUser, but it seems there should be a more creative
angle to fight back. How about more infomercials, and maybe some
celebrity endorsements. Where's that old Apple PR?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 16:07:18 -0400
From: Richard Hudak
Subject: Mac vs Win '95
Thanks for your "Macintosh Advocacy" web page, Jon. Though I'm trapped in a
company I did not create (Lotus) I use a Mac at home, and believe in it. My
four-year-old knows his way around and had taught my wife a few things, so I
appreciate the "kid-testimony." More power to you.
--
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"Human beings live in a world of meaningful objects--not in
an environment of stimuli or self constituted entities."
--Herbert Blumer ,1969
Richard Hudak Richard_Hudak@crd.lotus.com
http://metro.turnpike.net/H/hudakrmii/index.html
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 13:59:49 -0700
From: Marc Allen Page
Subject: Rad anti MS
I love hearing real logic and reason about why the future should not be
microsoft. Thank you for your efforts at a better future
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 15:51:20 -0400
From: kpidcoc@wilkes1.wilkes.edu (Ken Pidcock)
Subject: RE Macintosh Advocacy
I came across your advocacy page via a path that started with an Apple
advertisement on the MacUser page. If you haven't seen it, it's brilliant,
and would make a fabulous bumper sticker. A single line of block text over
the Apple logo:
C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
Cute, huh?
Anyway, I'm a Macintosh user (and, hopefully, a soon-to-be Macintosh owner,
if Apple ever gets around to delivering to its higher education customers)
who was for a number of years the sole DOS user in an all-Macintosh office.
Believe me, that's no picnic, either. I remember a colleaugue looking at
a document and asking, "You mean you can use more than one font" Even now,
it embarasses me somewhat to see the degree to which my fellow Mac users
treat the real "rest of us" as idiots.
I think that this attitude fails to consider the history of personal
computing. Consider the year 1986, when a lot of offices starting buying
desktop machines in large numbers. True, the Macintosh had the (VASTLY)
superior operating system, but that OS left little room for any serious
applications. Given the choice between useful if primitive tools and a
slow, expensive OS showcase, it wasn't that dumb to go with the Intel
platforms.
Today, of course, the appropriate choice is obvious, but everybody has this
tremendous investment in old software and files prepared thereby. Why not
both? Fair enough (I've ordered the 6100/DOS for my home), but you're
asking managers to spend an extra $800.00 per machine, either for an Intel
expansion card or for SoftWindows and the extra memory it requires. Not an
easy choice.
I'm convinced that the Macintosh is coming up on some fat times. All the
Windows95 hype churned up a lot of professional and popular journalism,
almost all of which included deference toward MacSystem as the best
graphical OS; I expect a few more people will be looking at it than had
been. The Intel x86 line is about at an end. In the not too distant
future, offices will be looking at choosing between WindowsNT and Copeland,
both controlling RISC CPUs; in either case, their old stuff's going to have
to be emulated.
Myself, I'll probably remain split for a while. I learned to write with
WordPerfect 4.2 and, after you've climbed that hill, nothing graphical is
fast or efficient enough. So next to my Mac at work sits an 8 Mhz AT clone
with a Hercules monochrome display. I've actually become more fond of the
arrangement since we had ethernet networks installed. While I get work
done on the AT, I let Web pages download on the Mac. Jeez, I wonder if
that'll work with the houdini?
Kenneth Pidcock
Biology Department
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766
phone (717)831-4766
fax (717)829-2434
kpidcoc@wilkes.edu
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