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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux
To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:42:33 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199710020820.BAA24323@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 2, 97 08:20:05 am
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> Noorda was forced out by Mar Burnside and the other members of "The
                           Mary
> Burnside was a bean-counter (accountant) who decided that the best way
> to optimize short term profit was to milk the existing product line to
> death without investment in new technology.  That strategy has a 5 year
> cap.

And this sould not have made it to this list, since socioecnomic
modelling is not this list's strong point...

Sorry.

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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