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From: Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and PR
Date: Mon,  9 Feb 2004 19:13:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25583AA5-5B77-11D8-B188-000A95E29604@nas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076330831.26503.143.camel@zevon>

On Feb 9, 2004, at 4:47 AM, Dave Lukes wrote:
> Also, having an outside perspective means that they tend to lack
> the inbuilt bigotries about technology that so-called
> IT professionals suffer from
> ("No-one ever got fired for buying "IBM/Microsoft/Linux ...")
> so they'll use whatever works.

It's also these groups that have been marginalized by MS, etc.

Librarians might be tempted to buy Microsoft if they didn't have to
roll their own catalogue in Excel or Access.

-Jack



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-10  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-08  5:49 Herbert B. Hancock
2004-02-08 16:36 ` ron minnich
2004-02-09  4:57   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-02-09  4:59     ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-02-09  9:45   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-09 15:39     ` ron minnich
2004-02-08 16:46 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-08 21:39   ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-09 10:40 ` Michael Jeffrey
2004-02-09 11:57   ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-09 12:15     ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-09 12:47       ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-09 12:52         ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-09 14:38           ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-09 16:28         ` Micah Stetson
2004-02-09 17:13           ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-09 18:23             ` Micah Stetson
2004-02-09 18:29               ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-09 21:23                 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-09 18:45           ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-10  3:13         ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2004-02-10  8:36           ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-22 17:06 David Presotto
2004-02-23 11:05 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros

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