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	Karel Jansens	2007-05-04 , 16:15
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Originally Posted by geneven

My boss at Quarterdeck for awhile was Gaston Bastaens, who ran my company into the ground after being in charge of the Newton at Apple, so I have never understand how it could have such a good reputation when he was associated with it. But you are right again.

There is a difference between the design of Newton/MessagePad, which -- certainly in its latter day incarnations -- was simply brilliant, and its management, which was -- er -- not.

Bastaens BTW certainly deserves his own circle in Hell.

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