From: Tom Duff td@pixar.com
Subject: [9fans] My view of Plan 9 and it's future
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:06:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000519160647.bAE5MjTD5rtufT1jx_CmfAV5cgrBYsnfFahTCnfsg-Y@z> (raw)
On May 19, 8:29am, Christopher Browne wrote [edited]:
> I expect it is more out of ignorance of the "true value"
> on the part of the PHBs way up in the organization.
^^^
Inside Bell Labs, the most common sort of Pointy Haired Boss,
the sort that's immune to innovation, used to be known as
`people with Bell-Shaped Heads.' (I'm off topic?
Very well, then, I'm off topic. I am large, I contain
multitudes.)
--
Tom Duff. Bet you I can go a week without saying "synergy" or
"value-added."
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2000-05-19 16:06 Tom [this message]
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2000-05-19 16:45 Tom
2000-05-19 16:19 Will
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2000-05-19 8:29 Christopher
2000-05-18 16:23 Douglas
2000-05-18 7:01 Richard
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2000-05-15 17:15 Tom
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