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From: rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <3186@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: 21 Jan 88 17:26:03 GMT
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In article <1848@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>> >Smile when you say that...
>> >Better yet, tell it to the literally millions of executives who are doing
>> >useful work with them daily. They'll laugh you out of the office.

me executives?  pc's?  useful work?
me 
me 			    paper weights
me 		       secretary running lotus
me 			  terminal emulation
me 		       secretary running lotus
me 	       impress business associates and friends
me 		       secretary running lotus
me       the hard disks are good for storing out of date software.
me 		       secretary running lotus
me 	      scream for more useful products like os/2
me 		       secretary running lotus
me
me rob
>
>If this weren't typical of the elitist hostility to PCs on USENET (and a
>few other places), I would ignore it.
>
>LOTS of useful work is getting done out there by executives -- and I don't
>mean the "secretary running lotus".  (The last place I worked, the General
>Manager put his own spreadsheets together, his own presentation graphics
>for corporate headquarters).

sensitive about something clayton?  my article/commentary was not on
pc's, but executives using them for `useful` work.  i've seen alot of
executives with pc's, most use them as giant terminals (but heaven
forbid you try and replace it with a terminal), most don't know how to
use them.  many are just used as status symbols ("I've got a color
monitor what do you have?"), and decorations to sit on the desk.

i too think pc's can be useful, it's just that the waste bothers me.

please note, that this MY generalization, and that not every executive
with a pc is computer illiterate, but alot are.

remember the usenet golden rule:  the average american reads at a 5th
grade level. 

rob