Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!umd5!zben From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: NFS on the Mac Summary: Jumping in with both feet on something totally irrelevant Message-ID: <6764@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 27 Jun 90 18:54:54 GMT References: <6692@umd5.umd.edu> <855@mdavcr.UUCP> <268138A0.6F2B@intercon.com> <32354@ut-emx.UUCP> <26867E21.18CE@intercon.com> <8873@goofy.Apple.COM> <26882E2B.2AC7@intercon.com> Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 30 In article <26882E2B.2AC7@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: > Microsoft seems to be teflon-coated :-), but in general, if your software > doesn't work, your company dies in the marketplace. Would that this were true, but IMHO that this is NOT true is a stinging inci indictment of everything that is wrong with amerikkan industry. When a company gets to a certain threshhold size, no wrongheaded or even criminal act is sufficient to make Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" descend in wrath. * The Coca-Cola companies egregious changing of the formula, then changing they changed it back when they in fact didn't, with the flimsy fig-leaf of "well, individual bottlers were *always* allowed to use Corn Syrup instead of sugar" (in spite of the fact that all domestic bottlers used the opportunity to change over). * Allied Chemical's creation of a three-man subsidiary in order to manufacture hazardous insecticides for overseas use, and pollution of an entire watershed by egregiously poor waste management practices, and subsequent legal claim to immunity from liability. Big Business (and Big Government) protects its own, and it's the best real example of a diseconomy-of-scale I've seen. -- Ben Cranston Warm and Fuzzy Networking Group, Egregious State University My cat is named "Perpetually Hungry Autonomous Carbon Unit"; I call him "Sam".