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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!supernews.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.60.19.15!news.island.net!nanaimo.island.net!cmott From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:36:53 -0800 Organization: Island Internet Inc. - (604) 753-2383 Lines: 44 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970111130908.28804A-100000@nanaimo.island.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nanaimo.island.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cmott@nanaimo.island.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33994 Note: this thread is becoming seriously off-topic. szdavila@jps.net wrote: >>> Ha! This proves you don't know the General Secretary... He would >>> never have admitted that! >>> >>> ``The General Secretary was angry. "In order to >>> maintain our continous leadership in the world's >>> software technology, we need to continually improve >>> our products. I have received reports that Linus is >>> now slowly catching up!" His fist banged against >>> the table.'' >> >>J"org, >> >>How similar your General Secretary sounds to a manager >>at a medium to large sized American company. There is a >>principle of bureaucracy and mediocrity which transcends >>economic systems and the past cold war. >> > >Or placed in another context: it's the open competition that really >makes the world go 'round. This is not a description of mediocrity - >rather this is a pragmatic viewpoint, and one which keeps advancement >going in a forward direction. Note to szdavila@jps.net: You obviously haven't gotten the point -- which was the comparison between the two fictional General Secretaries. One is concise and intelligent; the other is mediocre and speaks with stock phrases (like a typical American manager). You snipped the posting in a way that people cannot see this. I'm tempted to think that you may also be a mediocre American manager and cannot see the humor and historical irony in J"org's posting. Yes ... in fact, J"org's General Secretary seems perfectly reasonable to you, a role model even. Charles Mott