From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 21 16:51:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D40914C20 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a014.otenet.gr [195.167.115.14]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA09260 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 02:51:23 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 1678 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Nov 1999 13:44:51 -0000 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marketing vs. technical superiority (was: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") References: <000001bf3313$1ee4ce90$021d85d1@youwant.to> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 21 Nov 1999 15:44:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: "David Schwartz"'s message of "Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:53:00 -0800" Message-ID: <863du0arhp.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "David Schwartz" writes: > Do you understand what 'empirical evidence' is? What happened to you > personally, or how your Aunt Edna feels is not empirical evidence of a > market trend. True, admittedly very true. But it does matter what your boss thinks, and if you get thim to have that 'send as html' checked out in his Outlook configuration, that's a great step towards collaboration :-) Oh, and a few others, like wrapping at 70-75 characters perhaps, or even using that 'attachment' thingy instead of just pasting huge documents inline in every message, and so on... that certainly is empirical enough to help both of you get along with each other nicely. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message