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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Reward for NeXT's response on the net.
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.121053.21335@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 12:10:53 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.063402.28521@agate.berkeley.edu>
izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:

>I do appreciate NeXT employees taking their own time and
>post articles in this newsgroup.

Yes, that's definitely something to appreciate.

>However, it may make a lot of sense for NeXT to have a FULLY
>PAID employee (or two) in their work time to monitor all
>reasonable messages and alert appropriate people with the
>summary of suggestions made in comp.sys.next.

>(May be this is just the sort of work for good student
> consultants.)

Good ideas, I think, though not completely free of problems,
from NeXT's point of view.  It isn't their fault that the
world is full of sharks, or that they must swim in the same
pond with those sharks.  The competition is keen, and a
small mistake in judgment about what information is
company-confidential could cost the firm its life.  IBM and
DEC can survive a lot of mistakes, probably; NeXT's grip on
survival is somewhat more tenuous.  This is not necessarily
a bad thing, after all; they are forced by this to be
responsive to their market.

>Responses to the questions raised may be put into something
>like NextAnswers, or into a corner of NeXT on Campus, etc.
>
>Since all the messages posted here are public domain data, I
>don't think this causes any problem with the Internet
>restrictions mentioned in an earlier posting.

A minor correction of fact: postings are not public domain.
Writers do not relinquish copyright by publishing; those
rights do not require proper notice, though proper notice
makes it easier to prevail in court, if it came to that.

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