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#Guerrilla Vid Mktg

    17-May-93 09:18:37
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: David Hopkins 72303,436
I've stated my beliefs. I've asked a lot of questions, which you've consistently dodged. You and/or Gun For Hire certainly thought this video would be profitable. They didn't invest $25K as a charitable donation. Your "ends" of educating Toaster users do not justify your "means" of cashing checks before a product is ready. As for InterChange, gee, thanks for condemning it based on the beta copy. I'm so glad I sent it. If you weren't a columnist explicitly or implicitly promising a mention in VTU, you're right, I wouldn't have sent it. "Open so many little programs"? Huh? In the release version of ICP, you click on one icon to start everything. One window opens. You see, that's one of the improvements we made in the jump from InterChange to InterChange Plus. Even if you think you have a superior design for our user interface, why would that prevent you from using ICP or discussing its worth in your column? If ICP does the best conversions of 3D objects and supports more formats more accurately than anything out there, why isn't it worth discussing? As for Unili Graphics: I talked with them a month or so ago. They told me they'd used InterChange Plus to convert their font objects from one format to another, but they ran into a bug of some kind. (Is this the product of theirs that you plug?) I knew they weren't in our registration database. I asked which version they had and why they hadn't registered, and they said, oh, we got a beta version of InterChange Plus from a southern California pirate board. Needless to say, my opinion of them was formed quite quickly. As for your potential for receiving more free Syndesis software, as long as you're a VTU columnist, your odds remain as good as they ever were, that is, you're at the top of the list because of the realities of this market. We sent a batch (5?) of the release InterChange Plus to the VTU offices, I don't know why you didn't receive a copy. I will make my opinions known to the new editor of VTU. I've heard that he plans to dismiss a number of writers.