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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (110363)	6/27/2001 11:27:48 AM
From: Tom M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>Just say NO< good read and it has to be done. Interesting timing as I'm in the middle of Atlas Shrugged. I've been "feeling" what's been going on particularly since the beginning of the Clinton Admin's 2nd term but man do I wish I had read that book earlier. One by one, the innovators, industrialists, and consumers have to say NO. I didn't know I was following the script to Atlas Shrugged when I made the decision in '96 to leave a small software company I was a founding partner in and main developer because I had it with what I saw MSFT & Intel getting away with. MSFT started wanting your product's SORCE CODE before they would "certify" your own product! What a souce of "innovations". After 13 years of keeping bleeding edge current, I decided to walk, telling myself I can always go back if things change. I won't even get started on COOKIES. One other thing I found interesting in that article was the car buying analogy. I have a friend who's a GM dealer who wanted me to do some consulting work as they were finding it increasingly difficult to find people who knew what they were doing ;-) While there I noticed a rack of GM sales training videos about overcoming customer objections on various things like not being ready yet, not having the financing (what kind of payment are you looking for? -g), etc. I've often thought of those tapes since '96, thinking they must have been sent to every salesman of any products and had the religion drilled into their heads in order to have gotten the American consumer in such historic levels of debt. Always thought it was just a matter of time when they can't afford to buy anything else. regards, Tom