[Info-vax] Powerterm version 9.2.0

[Paul Sture]

In article <00AAABC5.83AF6351 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <paul.nospam-9CD4B4.14080409022011 at pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture 
> <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> >In article <00AAA711.A4A8A2F5 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
> > VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >
> >> There is no WEENDOZE here.  Never had it; never will.  I have never had
> >> a need that couldn't be realized on a Mac or Linux or VMS systems.  Why
> >> do people insist on tormenting themselves with WEENDOZE?
> >
> >Microsoft bypassed the technical folks and sold it to upper management.
> >
> >Different platform, same story:
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell#Beyond_NetWare
> >
> >"However, by 1999, Novell had lost its dominant market position, and was 
> >continually being out-marketed by Microsoft, which gained access to 
> >corporate data centers by bypassing technical staff and selling directly 
> >to corporate executives."
> >
> >and that was how I got into mainframes in 1980. IBM did a better job 
> >than DEC at selling to the board of directors.
> 
>     If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, 
>     or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church 
>     organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten 
>     road to his house, though it be in the woods.
>     --- Ralph Waldo Emerson
> 
> Poor Ralphie must never have encountered a wine-'em-n-dine-'em marketroid.

I'm not a fan of Johnson, but this seems relevant:

"Whatever is found to gratify the publick, will be multiplied by the 
emulation of venders beyond necessity or use. This plenty, indeed, 
produces cheapness, but cheapness always ends in negligence and 
depravation."
--- Samuel Johnson: Idler #7 (May 27, 1758)


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Paul Sture