Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!zazen!dogie!anderson From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: '040 Upgrade Message-ID: <1991Apr12.032150.26608@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <19111@cs.utexas.edu> <1991Apr12.025746.30048@mp.cs.niu.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 03:21:50 GMT In article <1991Apr12.025746.30048@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes: >In article <19111@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes: >>Never, ever, ever, trust a University. >Absolutely, at least w.r.t. state universities, and I would >consider that admonition deficient inasmuch as it stops short of >including all other government bureaucracies. Unlike NeXT :-), >their continued existence is completely independent of their >reputations. My goodness, all these cynics lurking about. The primary focus of all large organizations -- and of most small ones -- is to continue themselves in existence, which if I apply it to myself seems not at all unreasonable. I agree with you about entities like NeXT, which will quickly disappear if they screw up too massively. Neither governments nor major corporations -- especially banks -- are subject to such "corrections," for they depend on you and me to buy up their mistakes. But one can try to maintain a cheerful outlook nevertheless, t'was ever thus, in one way or another. :-) <> Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and <> are willing to go through hell to get it. -- Don Marquis -- Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888