Author: Amir Ban
Date: 02:39:28 07/22/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 17:34:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 21, 2000 at 16:38:45, blass uri wrote: > >>On July 21, 2000 at 15:29:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >><snipped> >>>I could promise to let you use my quad xeon in a chess tournament, just as I >>>have done for Vincent several times. And someone higher-up here at UAB could >>>say "no" and "no" it would be. Beyond my control. >> >>If it is something that is not dependent only on you then you should not >>promise. >> >>You can say that you will let Ed to use your quad xeon only if somebody higher >>will not say no. > >Easy to say using 20-20 hindsight. If I say someone can use my machine, I >don't have any worry that I will get overruled. And I have loaned it several >times in the past. If I worked for a company like IBM, after having worked >here for many years, I still might say "yes" and then be surprised when I am >overruled. It happens. Remember that DT was developed and built by graduate >CS students at CMU. They were in a grad student environment, in an academic >environment where openness is everything. They then found themselves in a >totally different world at IBM... a public corporation with profit motives. > > Phew, what an argument and excuse for deceit. Let's take it further (sorry for getting carried away): Aren't we lucky that Hsu and Campbell worked for IBM, a company that was merely cynical and insincere and not much beyond that ? Imagine if Hsu and Campbell would have signed for a really evil institution, like the East German sports ministry. No alternative but to do as they want, and just following orders. Amir
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