Re: Ellison takes a fun jab at Microsoft

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• Subject: Re: Ellison takes a fun jab at Microsoft
• From: Gregory Sutter <[email protected]>
• Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:53:17 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Eric M. Bennett wrote:

>Shakespeare has the Seven Stages of Man. Now Larry Ellison has Microsoft's
>Four Stages of Stealing an Idea.

[snip]

>"Microsoft's distinctive competence is adjustment - facing up to a lapse,
>having the debate and fixing it or filling the hole," says George Colony of
>Forrester Research.

Through some horrible fluke, I read the first three words of the
preceding paragraph as "Microsoft's faltulent complacence".

Urg...

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