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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: IBM Pennant Systems survey
- Date: 1 Sep 92 02:30:07 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
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- In article <1992Aug31.150725@bk-kgnaix11.aix.kingston.ibm.com>, mjones@bk-kgnaix11.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones) writes:
- |>
- |> > |> I urge people not to cooperate with this survey.
- |> >
- |> > Hear hear. Anything to hinder IBM.
- |>
- |> As for Mr. Eijkhout, I don't understand that attitude at all.
-
- Must be the lack of smileys in my post. For which my apologies.
- I cherish a prejudice against
- IBM, which is partly justified (TSO, JCL, VM/CMS, the 6670 printer, MSDOS),
- and partly not (RS6000! Yeah! Vroom!).
-
- And I was ticked off by way the query and the response were formulated:
- 'please give us stuff, we are going to use it to become the best in
- the field, and we are not going to tell you any more about it'.
-
- |>There are
- |>some of us inside IBM who not only use UNIX, but we read Usenet and even
- |>use TeX!
-
- Did you know that parts of the design of TeX were influenced by
- the design (flaws :-) of IBM software?
-
- |> We are occasionally crucified for ignoring the needs of the market,
- |> then publicly abused for trying to investigate them.
-
- Nope. It was the arrogant attitude in the survey and the reply to Karl.
- If they would have told me what interesting purposes they had
- for my sollicited files, I would gladly have contributed.
-
- |> Mike Jones | AIX/ESA Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
-
- Victor.
-