On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:02 PM, John Campbell <soup...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ,,, > > No one can serve two masters, and even a publicly traded corporation > has to choose its loyalty carefully... and not being loyal to the > customers will not do the share-holders a lot of good ... > I was a customer back then, and was unhappy at being told that I shouldn't buy what I/we thought we needed - but to buy what we were told to buy. (This didn't happy *all* the time, but often enough to be very bothersome.) The bureaucracy was enormous and arrogant. (shrugs) > Me, too. > > It probably does not help that share-holders-- especially the > institutional variety-- can force the mighty to the floor... > From my point of view, neither the customers nor the share-holders were being well served. > ... > --henry schaffer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/