[plug] ($750) Corporate memberships

Paul Wilson hooker at opera.iinet.net.au
Fri Mar 12 17:33:58 WST 1999


>Paul Wilson wrote:
>
>> >> I reckon we should design a nifty PLUG logo and charge $750 for
corporate
>> >> membership. That way, corporations who want to impress other
corporations
>> >> will use PLUG corportate membership as a status symbol, much as they
use
>> >> MCSE qualifications, the WA "birthmark", ISO9000, etc :).
>> >
>> >No! Nooooooooooo! (-:
>>
>> Eeeekkkk! ISO 9000 ! Plug doesn't have the resources or the time to get
that
>> (regardless of any other reason not to).
>
>At the risk of looking like an idiot.... what's the ISO9000 standard?


It's the kind of thing that reduces grown men to tears -- a quality
standard.  I've forgotten much of the official blurb about it, and why it's
so good (!), but I can give you the cynical version if you like.   :-)

Paul



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