On 7/16/14, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > IBM has quietly acquired a very strong patent and hardware and > software development position in mobile-phone technology; according > to this morning's New York Times, its business in this and closely > related areas has grown by more than 70% (sic) during the last year. > > IBM's marketing-to-business skills are also non-negligible; Apple's > marketing skills, on the other hand, are chiefly consumer ones. > > Some days before it announced the completion of Sputnik's first orbit > of the earth, the USSR made a meta-announcement to the effect that it > would have something important to announce. This provoked a good deal > of hilarity on the lines of "The Russians are going to announce to the > world that they invented the Waring Blender" by pundits who later came > to regret their punditry. > > As Sean O'Casey observed, "Scepticism on the lines of 'I was in Naples > at the same time as M. de Stendhal and he is a great liar' is too > easy. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >
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