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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: '040 Upgrade
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 03:21:50 GMT

In article <1991Apr12.025746.30048@mp.cs.niu.edu>
bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:

>In article <19111@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John
Howard Osborn) writes:

>>Never, ever, ever, trust a University.

>Absolutely, at least w.r.t. state universities, and I would
>consider that admonition deficient inasmuch as it stops short of
>including all other government bureaucracies.  Unlike NeXT :-),
>their continued existence is completely independent of their
>reputations.

My goodness, all these cynics lurking about.  The primary
focus of all large organizations -- and of most small ones --
is to continue themselves in existence, which if I apply it
to myself seems not at all unreasonable.  I agree with you
about entities like NeXT, which will quickly disappear if
they screw up too massively.  Neither governments nor major
corporations -- especially banks -- are subject to such
"corrections," for they depend on you and me to buy up their
mistakes.  But one can try to maintain a cheerful outlook
nevertheless, t'was ever thus, in one way or another. :-)

<> Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and
<> are willing to go through hell to get it. -- Don Marquis
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