From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bbfb939683be33d3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-09 00:39:17 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!slsv6bt!slbh01.bln.sel.alcatel.de!rcvie!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fantastic Ada promotional piece from Rational (long) Date: 8 Sep 1994 11:57:17 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <34nc8t$olr@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <34al0m$89d@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <34n5dn$3c8@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-09-08T11:57:17-04:00 List-Id: In article <34n5dn$3c8@theopolis.orl.mmc.com>, Ted Dennison wrote: >|> >|> Show me one successful businessman who makes the investment to start a company >|> because they "believe" in something. Hardly a wise business decision. It > >Bill Gates. Jobbs and Wozniak, Sam Walton (dead, but he was successful)... > Thanks for the help on this, Ted. Clearly you and I have very differet views of American business than John. Truth to tell, I'd _never_ buy a product from a guy like John. How good can it be if its own creator doesn't believe in it (or at least pretend he does)? This "we only do what the customer wants" is typical of government contractors, but not of successful business in general, which is smart enough to get off its duff and create customers. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5253 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "Pork is all that stuff the government gives the other guys." ------------------------------------------------------------------------