Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 06:22:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, jackv@earthling.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux in New York Times Message-ID: <199902220622.XAA22889@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199902220326.WAA23981@y.dyson.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Feb 21, 99 10:26:26 pm
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> The fact is: > > The best marketeer wins. Code quality is important, but not nearly > as important as the smoke and mirrors. I have gone so far as to tell a VP of Engineering I was under at the time that the only thing good engineering or user interface is for is repeat sales, and the primary value of any company is its ability to market. Even if I walk on water, as an engineer, it's no good unless someone buys tickets to watch me do it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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