Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:12:44 07/22/00
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On July 22, 2000 at 10:10:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 22, 2000 at 05:39:28, Amir Ban wrote: > >>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 > > >Welcome to the "real world". > >:) THis _really_ pisses me off. I typed one more character, netscape crashed and sent my post off anyway. I was going to add: The real world _is_ quite different when you do something for fun, vs when you do it to make money. IBM is about money. If they weren't, the shareholders wouldn't be shareholders... I don't see anything unusual.
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