Do they hire people who have recently started skating in the NHL? :) (2Andy Harchenko)
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From Andy Harchenko → To All 14 March 1998
Having sat down at the keyboard, I decided to draw a letter for you Andrew.
Once I was in a museum and there on an old, old stone an ancient man carved that
Saturday March 14, 1998 right at 13:30, Andrew Savichev wrote to All:
AS> bazaars are not for the sake of bazaars, but to protect OUR FUTURES
AS> MONEY!!! As for “inventing”... this is not talk... really
AS> will not be broken... I can’t say more - a trade secret! :)
You see, and you yourself said that it’s not a matter of protection, and now you promise that you won’t
break it.
AH>> And here the point, imho, is not the author’s fame, but the efficiency with which
AH>> the author will be able to sell out licensed copies before the pirates do their
AH>> business.
AS> Nobody will take risks like that anymore.
Front question: Am I a specific author of a specific product and how many options do I have for distributing my product? Here you don’t want to, but that’s the only way!
AH>> Yes, you can think until the second flood, here you have to do
AH>> practically
AS> We do!...but we say what we think ;)
^^^^^^^What?! Write!
AS> What do you traders not understand about the network and about SNS?
I AM NOT A TRADERRRRRRRRR! I AM AN AUTHORRRRR and I want someone to help me make money on my
product, not in words, but in DEEDS!
AS> It is needed for marketing experiments. Do you understand what
AS> a sketch is? And what before you write"novel" need "stories"? And where do you think the “fledged chicks” should “take wing”? Where can I look
AS> for a team for serious projects? All seasoned authors are well known to you traders
AS>! Don't have enough of your own? Lure with money from other
AS> platforms,
The money is not enough to lure a serious team to write something for the Z80!
In any case, it’s not enough, because... the prices are not comparable.
AS> and also don’t bother us with RAISING YOUR CHICKENS, ours
^^^^^^^^^^Is this really in my garden, do I really look like some
evil guy who ruins everything and interferes with everyone?! It's a shame! After all, this is not so!
>> Yes, we don’t pretend to be the real one yet and so we don’t seem to complain :)
AS> Well, look... since everything is fine with you, then I don’t wish harm to you, nor to you -
AS> to anyone else, since you are spektrumists - that’s the only reason why I
AS> are brothers! :)
Thank you for your kind words :)
AS> Andrey Savichev/CGS
Wiz zE BeSt WisHeZ 2 U!
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