Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:08:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, dyson@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, scrappy@hub.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <199704142108.OAA19365@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970413214851.00b3b9e0@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Apr 13, 97 09:48:53 pm
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> *coherent* is one thing....having a focus is another (theres that word > again!). Since there is no clear goal, the future is a fog, which makes > Freebsd undesirable in the long run for major endeavors. The word "coherent" is unique in that it can make a room full of people think of topics as disparate as "laser light" and "an old UNIX-like OS", when it was intended to convey "clarity of purpose"; in as such, the word is obviously not "coherent". The word "focus" is unique, in that it can, in a single word, sum up idiotic ideas like "put all the wood behind one arrow", "all oars rowing in the same direction", "work smarter, not harder", and similar claptrap, and, by making it a single word, somehow render it reasonable to people otherwise too intelligent to fall for it otherwise. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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