Author: george petty
Date: 06:59:16 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 04:37:56, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 01:52:35, george petty wrote: > >> READ THE BOOK "BIG BLUE" BY RICHARD THOMAS DELAMARTER. >> >> IT TELLS OF IBM'S USE AND ABUSE OF POWER, HOW IBM BEAT AMONG OTHERS, CONTROL >> DATA CORPORATION (CDC). HOW IBM MAKES THE RULES- A GAME OF POWER. THE WAY >> IBM BEAT CONTROL DATA WHICH AT THE TIME WAS DELIVERING THE 6600, THE FASTEST >> COMPUTER THAT SCIENTIFIC CUSTOMERS HAD EVER SEEN, THE TACTIC'S THAT THEY USED >> AND WORKED PARTICULARLY WELL AGAINST CONTROL DATA. A LOT MORE COULD BE SAID >> ABOUT WHAT IBM DOES ABOUT WINNING AT ANY COST. >> GEORGE > >Please use lower case letters. Blocks of text in capitals are the internet >equivalent of yelling into somebody's face. > >There are a lot of companies that will do a lot of less than angelic things in >furtherance of profit. Maybe IBM is one of them, but if so, I'm sure they're >not alone. > >Dave I will use lower case letters from now on. Sorry about that. I apologize about that. I agree with you on companies and what they do sometimes. Power sometimes goes too far.
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