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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Discussion at Usenix (was Bad News for Human Beings)
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:26:56 GMT
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- sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
- |Given the importance of presenting a positive image at a large trade
- |show and the $$$ spent to achieve it, you can bet that two things would
- |happen. First you *would* get noticed. And second you would probably be
- |escorted off the premises.
-
- |This may have some of the desired effect of course. Especially if the
- |trade press noticed.
-
- I was at the spring Interop, where a stagefull of PC-droids tried
- to convince a roomfull of experienced computer centre directors
- that their favorite version of non-interoperable PC mail was the
- right answer for the whole world.
-
- They got shouted at, laughed at and described in uncomplimentary terms
- by a bunch of suits.
- They took notice.
-
- Mind you, one company just started an advertizing campaign agains
- interoperability, but they **did** notice.
-
- And no-one was asked to leave: after all, we **were** the paying customers.
-
- --dave
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- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
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