RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["Chris Payne" <CPayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the name was changed so 
we could stop focusing on name changes

Is it just me, or does that sound just a little 
contradictory? Almost oxymoronic?

And it clearly didn't work, we are still focused on the name, which
tells me that if they really want us to stop focusing on the name
changes they are going to have to change the name again.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

"Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> the name was changed so 
> we could stop focusing on name changes

Is it just me, or does that sound just a little 
contradictory? Almost oxymoronic?

For my own part, this whole thread reminds me of two 
things:

Many years ago, when Corel bought Ventura Publisher off of 
Xerox, summarily discontinued all versions of it other 
than WinDoze, and then began turning it into something 
that looks more like PageFaker than Ventura, they sent me 
a letter "offering" me a free "upgrade" to the latest 
WinDoze version. I sent back a letter informing them that 
as a classic DOS/GEM edition user, I'd rather fight than 
switch, and telling them what they could do with their 
supposed "upgrade."

The other thing is the very root of the "rather fight than 
switch" slogan: an old tobacco ad campaign in which those 
who sucked the fumes of a particular brand of cigarette 
(it starts with a "T" and ends with an "N") would rather 
fight than switch, and sported black eyes to prove it.

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JHHL