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  2. From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  4. Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
  5. Message-ID: <8352@lib.tmc.edu>
  6. Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:39:06 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan4.225618.8531@tc.cornell.edu> <8322@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.225440.14879@tc.cornell.edu>
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  9. Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston
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  13. In article <1993Jan5.225440.14879@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
  14. >If the successful candidate increased his/her employment probability
  15. >by becoming more marketable, went for many interviews, wrote nice 
  16. >resumes, convinced employers that he/she is valuable to them, would
  17. >you say that he/she is forcing the other candidates into unemployment ?
  18.  
  19. No.
  20.  
  21. If, on the other hand, the successful candidate went out and slashed the tires
  22. of the other candidates, making them miss their interviews, and got anonymous
  23. stories printed in the local papers about how they were wife-beating child
  24. molesters who couldn't program their way out of an infinite loop, would _you_
  25. say that he is forcing the others into unemployment? I would.
  26. -- 
  27. Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
  28. jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
  29.       "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
  30.               -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of All Fears_
  31.