----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Branagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: Back on the list
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> >
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jochen Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > writes
> > >Even when various dealers, Miracle, TF Systems,
> > >me, were selling competing products (ATARIs, SuperHermes,
> > >QXL) we ALWAYS treated each other fair, were and are still
> > >friends - and we all worked TOGETHER in the same direction.
> > >
> > >This, unfortunately, is not true anymore since the Q40
> > >has arrived. The "TOGETHER" has gone, and I have never seen
> > >so much unfriendlyness in the first 13 years which I have
> > >seen in the last 3 years .... and we're only so few people
> > >left!
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> Roy Wood wrote:-
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> > I agree with this 100%
> > --
> > Roy Wood
>
> Sadly, I do too. You could have cut the atmosphere with a chainsaw at
times
> at the Manchester AGM Show. I don't think its a question of how many
people
> we'll gain though the licensing of SMSQ/E, more a question now of how many
> we'll lose as a result of all this arguing......
>
> I stay QLing because of the people involved - 4 or 5 or my best friends I
> met through my little black box, one of which I even became his best man
at
> his wedding, another one I'll be annoying with DVD queries most of next
week
> when the QL2002 DVD is launched. Many of the most enjoyable days of my
life
> over the last 10 years have been in or around QL show weekends. The
traders
> that have been around as long or longer than I have I feel are among the
> most honest and decent people I have ever met.
>
> Come on guys, lets bury it and get on with enjoying ourselves. Theres more
> to life.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darren Branagh
I'll echo that
I wish I could have attended many more QL worshops than I have, but I did
enjoy those that I got to and have enjoyed using a Ql since 1984, only in
the last couple of weeks have I ever contemplated the unthinkable - flogging
all my Qlstuff, Q40. Aurora .........
Desperatly looking for some positive stuff guys (the few recent reports
about QDT shone like beacons across a sea doom )
One thing I would like to say ( without taking any side in the ongoing saga)
is this, I have great respect for Roy Wood, like many other (past) QL
traders he faced quite difficult business problems, to the best of my
knowledge and from personal experience Roy choose not to walk away from
commitments but came good, in today's world I reckon that's something he
should be proud of.
All the best - Bill
