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From: Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and PR
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Mon,  9 Feb 2004 19:13:49 -0800
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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