OT: Online auctins an institution?

From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_ricochet.net>
Date: Tue Dec 22 21:22:49 1998

At 06:33 PM 12/21/98 +1, you wrote:
>to build a Z3 or Mark I). Also later on things like GUI
>have been developed in a non capitalist environment. Not

I know it sure *seems* like it, but really, Xerox was never out to lose
money on computers...

And I won't bother mentioning Apple or Microsloth...

(Oh, okay I will -- I'll stipulate that Woz may have been in it for fun,
but Jobs was/is definitely in it for the money.)


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