CompuServe Messages

If you choose to call the real-estate "box" that does real estate software for fictional John James, who'se 28 years old and needs something to do it right now, then fine – but nevertheless he's got a computer that's going to do what he needs it to do – and that's what computers are in the bottom line, tools. I think you are doing a major disservice by spouting computer-brand rhetoric, instead of allowing and encourage people to educate themselves about what a computer can and cannot do and letting them choose for themselves (giving guided opinions, of course). You can't play the ostrich-approach, pull down the shades, and heard people to do what you want them to do, it just doesn't work. You have to let them know through education and letting the "unfortunate" facts fall through as well – and the "unfortunate" facts are (due to the state of software only) that the IBM computers will "get the job done" in many situations where an Amiga will not.