[plug] New Years' Resolutions

[Bob Ogden]

In <36AC426F.669F562C at brooks.smileys.net>, on 25/Jan/99 
   at 10:07 AM,(+0000 GMT)
Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.smileys.net> said:

> Bob Ogden wrote:
> > > IBM would be a
> > > nice venue, but how do we interest them? Sure, they're planning on
> > > supporting Linux directly, but will they count *UG's as fellow
> > > travellers or (brainless move) competitors - or as undignified
> > > embarrassments, to be generally avoided?

> > Having dealt with IBM when there was an OS/2 UG in Perth I'd say
> > "undignified embarrassments, to be generally avoided" and that was with a
> > high proportion of suits from big corp's in the group :(.

> > IBM seem to have a severe lack of clue when it comes to relating to people
> > with less than gigabuck$ to splash around on IT. --

> "Get a haircut, and get a real job..." (-:

Trouble is that, as I said, a lot of the members _had_ a haircut and _had_
real jobs :).

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