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Greetings all, So you wanted to talk to Commodore US? Here is your chance! I have arranged with the VP of Commodore Marketing in the US, John Dilulu, to answer 20 questions from us–the AmigaUser Forum here on CompuServe. I contacted Mr. Dilulu after reading the threads here and I found him to be quite pleasant and very interested in the Amiga, and in its users. He did talk to me about the meeting at CES with the dealer and he feels that he was taken out of context completely. He doesn't find all Amiga owners an embarrassment, but rather just the radical few. The other comment he made is that he feels the Amiga user community has decided that there is nothing Commodore has done right–from day one. The armchair quarterbacking without knowledge of the facts has done a lot to damage relations between Commodore Amiga customers and Commodore personnel. Since I am an Amiga reseller, I can relate to his concerns. After talking with him awhile, I decided to ask him to answer some questions for the user community here on CompuServe. He readily agreed. It is my hope that the current anti-Dilulu thread will now die and that we can use our connections as a group to help Commodore make decisions that we think would be good for the company. John agreed to allow me to be his gateway to the Amiga community here on CIS. He felt that it would be helpful to have another perspective from the 'field'. So, Mr. Dilulu has agreed to carry to Medhi Ali and other Commodore executives twenty questions from this group which I will fax him in two weeks. These twenty questions should be questions with real merit–not questions like "Where is my software?" or "Is Commodore going to still be in business in 6 months?" A good question might be: "How do you intend to market the CD32 in the United States?" The Amiga Forum sysops will collect these questions from the users here at CompuServe and decide which 20 we will send to Commodore. This way all of you have a shot at asking Commodore a question. I am hoping that many are starting to notice some fundamental improvement here on CIS and will spread the word. We are working our connections with Commodore and third-party developers to make your online experience more interesting. Pass the word–The AmigaForum here on CIS is connected. 🙂 -mark= Otto Pilot Engaged..