Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

I vote for System/38. Think of it...young people wouldn't know the name, and
old people would just nod sagely at each other. And we can say that the new
computing paradigm is the Unicode based interface, and GUI is for sissies. I
like it...

On 12/8/06, Chris Payne <CPayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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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"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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