Trip Hawkins Blasts Everybody

An anonymous reader writes "Trip Hawkins, founder of EA, sent in a hilarious two page letter to the editor in response to last week's Trip Hawkins is the Antichrist article in the Escapist. Among the Tripisms is a call for the Garriotts to stop being self-righteous about lawsuits and just 'play the game...'" From the article: "This article comes as a bit of a surprise to me. Not the lead quote, because my success with EA did indeed unnerve many competitors who wanted to externalize blame for their problems. But disparaging my commitment to quality, putting words in my mouth, and saying they never would have sold the company if I had been involved - these inaccuracies paint a very wrong picture."

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I don't get it.

[s4m7]

What's so hilarious about this response? Hawkins is a businessman first, always has been, and I don't doubt that all of his decisions are made in light of the bottom line with no "personal feelings" attached whatsoever (okay, maybe aside from the 3DO). But if the article misquotes him, he should have every right to respond to correct that. As for his "committment to quality" EA does have a lot of award winning games, but great things can be accomplished when you treat your labor pool like slaves, just look at the pyramids.