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Re: Hmmm... what *is* this world coming to?

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From: Stanislaw
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:00
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On 20 Apr 1997, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:

> 
> I almost fell off my chair this week when I read the following quote in
> Tuesday's "Australian" computers section:
> 
> "We are seeing our end users wanting to get away from the proprietary
> nature of Unix" (this was in reference to switching towards NT clustering).
> 
> Admittedly, it was a quote by someone the "Australian" interviewed, 
> (a Mr. Blaine Owens, director of BankTec) and not attributable to the
> "Australian" itself.

Just a remark, since when a manager, director or minister has to know 
what he is talking about? Ref. aus.politics.
Stanislaw.


> 
> Nevertheless, with guff like that, you do have to wonder about the quality
> of people that the newspaper is talking to.
> 
> If anyone is interested in looking at it yourself, the article starts on 
> page 1 of section 3 of the "Australian" dated Tuesday 14th April, 1997.
> 
> 
> ...Paul.
> 
> 
> --
> Paul Dwerryhouse                                        paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au
> "The growing use of e-mail, not to mention Web-page publishing, threatens to 
> reverse the trend towards illiteracy among the supposedly educated without at 
> the same time improving their spelling". -- Michael Swaine, Dr. Dobb's Journal
> 
> 
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