CompuServe Messages

I in no way said anything about worried about whether my opinion carried any weight or not. I'm sure that, in time, I will be known around here also. In the meantime I'm not in the least way intimidated in disagreeing with anyone, be it a Sysop, a programmer, or a CBM official. As I said to Larry, it "bothers" me to see EA bashing because it's not founded in strong reasons. THe reasons that have been listed to me : MultiTasking, copy protection, and occasional gurus, are all shared by any number of a hundred or so companies making equally fine software for the Amiga. You specifically said that DPAINT II gurus alot. Upon checking with others who use Dpaint a whole lot, I've been told that it doesn't guru at all (for them). Including using very advanced functions. Steve said that it gurus if there are over 100 files on the directory. Well, it does. But is that type of bug something especially nasty and unusual? Or, to put it differently, is there a program on the market that doesn't have a bug on that level of frequency/obscurity? I don't think so. And that kind of bug is hardly "alot" or "frequent". In the meantime, in swiping EA all the time, and not swiping those companies who also violate your rules, it seems to me that people are "picking" on EA, which I view as an instrumental company in making the Amiga successful. I'll also tell you another thing that bothers me. If your best friend were an EA official, you'd probably use more tact and be more careful, wouldn't you? I think that EA should be afforded the same courtesy even if they do seem distant. EA isn't here and isn't part of the "click", so they get bashed for their problems. And people enjoy it. Completely callous and insenstive to the hours of programming development time that goes into every EA product (and it shows). My point is to show the "other" point of view. I'm not trying to get you to accept it, I feel that'd be fruitless.