Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site celerity.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!celerity!ron
From: ron@celerity.UUCP (Ron McDaniels)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Selling Apples on the street corner
Message-ID: <297@celerity.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 13:56:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: celerity.297
Posted: Wed Jun 19 13:56:03 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Jun-85 03:20:36 EDT
References: <3865@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: ron@celerity.UUCP (Ron McDaniels)
Organization: Celerity Computing, San Diego, Ca.
Lines: 25

In article <3865@alice.UUCP> wolit@alice.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky) writes:
>The big question this week is, when Reagan urged America's youth to
>emulate the entrepreneurial spirit of those young men who started a
>multi-million dollar high-tech company in their garage, was he
>referring to Apple Computer, which last week layed off 1,200 workers
>and closed three of its six plants, or to Hewlett-Packard, which today
>announced that its 84,000 employees would be furloughed for three days
>next month?  Or perhaps he was talking about Data ("The Soul of a New
>Machine") General, which is firing 1,300 people and closing its U.S.
>plants for five days this summer?
>-- 
>Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; 201 582-2998; alice!wolit
>(Affiliation given for identification purposes only)

Color me dense. I really don't understand what point wolit@alice is trying
to make. Could it be that working for a multi-billion $ conglomerate that
can absorb the kind of high-tech lethergy we are seeing today has caused
more than a little calousness ("Let them eat cake. . .")? Sure wish my company
had the money to develop a Face Server!


R. L. (Ron) McDaniels . CELERITY COMPUTING . 9692 Via Excelencia Way . San Diego
(619) 271-9940 {decvax || ucbvax || ihnp4 || philabs}!sdcsvax!celerity!ron

(Affiliation given because I'm proud to work here)