My original objection to the term "poor management" was that it was too generic; it was not wrong, only inspecific.
Other, sublethal examples abound. John Cocke invented RISC as an IBM employee/fellow. IBM did not quite ignore it, but it was left to others to exploit it (as something more than a sea anchor to windward) until its much later reincarnation as millicode. Or again, misinformation and hyperbole abound; but Xerox did fail, conspicuously and repeatedly, to exploit Xerox Parc innovations John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
