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- Subject: Re: "IBM is listening." How? (was Re: IBM won't accept Internet...)
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- From: gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Date: 26 Dec 92 22:34:25 GMT
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- dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine) writes:
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- >True enough, listening doesn't always equal doing what the speaker
- >wants. There have been plenty of cases of internals trying to get
- >some group or other inside IBM to change it's mind and failing. Sometimes
- >external complaints carry more weight, sometimes not.
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- >David W. Levine -- dwl@watson.ibm.com -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
-
- I realize that. But it would be more satisfying to find out why not and
- maybe even get a chance to argue... I think many of the people on this
- group would like to know *why* some things were done. I would also like
- to know what the people who made the design decisions think of our
- frequent suggestions.
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
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