On Schopenhauer and Market-driven code (Was Multimedia)

Tom Ayerst tom at lynch-fm.demon.co.uk
Thu Mar 16 00:37:27 UTC 2000


Lawson English wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 2:39 PM, Jarvis, Robert P. \(Contingent\)
> <mailto:Jarvisb at timken.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From:        Lawson English [SMTP:english at primenet.com]
> >> Sent:        Wednesday, March 15, 2000 5:40 PM
> >> To:  squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> >> Subject:     RE: On Schopenhauer and Market-driven code (Was  Multimedia)
> >>
> >> Please define success in a way that doesn't involve marketing in some
> >> sense.
> >>
> >I am a successful fisherman.
> >This does not mean I catch many fish.
>
> However, you HAVE convinced the fish to take the bait...

However, you haven't conviced anyone on this list to publicly act on your
suggestions, go figure...

1st rule of Marketing... Know your audience.

Hope this helps.

Tom

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"It's not what you don't know that kills you, ... it's what you know that isn't
so." - Mr Thompkins






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