Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:9246 alt.religion.computers:2390 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,alt.religion.computers Subject: Re: Mac clones (was Re: AT&T Claims patent on part of MIT's X11) Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 91 23:38:32 GMT References: <1991Feb24.073634.11556@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Mar5.154844.17339@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu's message of 5 Mar 91 15:48:44 GMT >Yes, I can think of one reason. No corporate buyer ever lost his job >because he decided to buy IBM. Perhaps you don't understand that phrase. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" is an IBM salesman's sotto voce threat to a middle-manager wandering from the fold. It means "I can get you fired for not buying our products", and they often can. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD