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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.