Re: Killer Micros

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From: Barry Shein
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 17:19

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>	It has always been a truism that nobody ever got fired for buying
>IBM.  It's probably true today that nobody ever gets fired for buying DEC.
>To most people in corporate America, making any kind of decision (from
>which million dollar mainframe to buy to which brand of toilet paper should
>go in the executive john) means taking the path which is least likely to
>get you fired.
>-- 
>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute

I assume everyone realizes that phrase is not a bit of quaint advice
but a salesperson's threat to a customer wandering from the fold?

I didn't think so. But it's rather disgusting, up there with Tex
Antoine's infamous "lay back and enjoy it" advice to rape victims.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Killer Micros
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Date: 27 Nov 89 17:19:37 GMT
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