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   XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: starsabre@net.att   
      
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    Macintosh Dragon  wrote:   
      
   >  I cannot   
   > imagine what the computing landscape is going to be like in say two   
   > years from now and if I had to make a decision like Jack did would I   
   > make the correct one?  Maybe, maybe not, but  doubt that he purposely   
   > went out of his way to kill profitable systems for the hell of it.   
      
   He didn't kill the 2600 and 7800 for the hell of it, he killed them   
   because he didn't want them in his or anyone else's world.  He failed to   
   realize he was buying an established brand with an established audience.   
   He thought he was buying a label that was known as a label, and that its   
   audience was willing to buy anything with that label.   
      
   > No   
   > doubt the guy is a jerk as a person, but he was a damn smart   
   > businessman.   
      
   A damn smart businessman that almost killed one company earlier than it   
   ended up dying, and a second company under his full misdirection.   
      
   jt   
      
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