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>Of particular note is the last paragraph, describing the economics of
>PointCast's local redistributor software, which first compares the
>thing to a protection racket, then to drug dealing, and finally winds
>up by describing it approvingly as a situation where "everybody wins".
>This is certainly an unusual --- one might even say unique --- per-
>spective on protection rackets and drug dealing. Indeed, you might
>almost wonder where Pointcast learned to apply those sorts of tactics
>in the software industry.
This is actually my fault. I feared this would happen. If you do a
AltaVista search for Tim Byars on the Usenet you'll find a line I wrote
that this guy is using for his .sig. It was about people bitching about
NeXT and I made the quote that NeXT was a successful company due to the
fact they were still around. That success was relative, and that every
company shouldn't be judged by Microsofts standards.
I believe my exact line was,
"as successful as who, Microsoft? No one but Columbian drug cartels are as
successful as Microsoft."
Obviously my words have become sacred scroll at Ms.
Tim
--Of the 588,963 marijuana-related arrests made in 1995, approximately 86 percent (503,350) were for simple possession. "These new FBI statistics indicate that one marijuana user is arrested every 54 seconds in America." -NORML News Release _____________________________________________________ tbyars@earthlink.net