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Re: Pork addicts are pathetic losers
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To: steve@method.com
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Subject: Re: Pork addicts are pathetic losers
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From: Philip Greenspun <philg@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:10:05 -0500
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Cc: Byron_Davies@mesaqm.sps.mot.com, www-cl@ai.mit.edu, clim@bbn.com, common-lisp@ai.sri.com, slug@ai.sri.com, alu@ai.sri.com, lisp-users@media.mit.edu, unplugged@folly.org, digitool@digitool.com
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In-Reply-To: <v03007802af38ca0fa78e@[206.100.125.26]> (message from Steve Strassmann on Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:26:16 -0500)
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Reply-To: philg@mit.edu
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Sender: owner-www-cl@ai.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:26:16 -0500
From: Steve Strassmann <steve@method.com>
First, let me say that I'm probably as much of a lisp fan
as anyone on the planet. If you know me at all, you know this.
...
If you want to save lisp, make it attractive to real
customers who will pay you year after year. Give them compelling
solutions to real-world problems.
I hear that there is this little company in Washington State that is
doing well by upholding free market principles. They don't depend on
government handouts, intimidation of competitors, or locking in
customers via ill-specified standards. Grab
http://www.webho.com/WealthClock
to see if it is paying off for them.
Definitely most of the real money in computers has been made by
corporations that played fair and didn't depend on government subsidies
or monopoly power. God Bless the Free Market. I like to keep a
complete collection of Ayn Rand novels next to my MS/DOS and MVS
manuals, just to remind me of what a wonderful country I live in where
technological innovation is rewarded by happy consumers choosing freely
among a world of alternatives.
I wish I could write more but I have to finish re-reading Atlas Shrugged
(for the 7th time!).
Philip
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