To: Charles T. Russell who wrote (10303 ) 1/21/1999 4:16:00 PM From: TEDennis Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15094
Wow. This thread is so quiet, you could hear the proverbial pin drop. It's almost as though one of the thread leaders has been PM'ing people not to respond to any of this "IBM right to sell" discussion. [I can picture the select few doing a double-take right here. Hey! How did he know? Somebody must have told him! Who did that? Why?] Perhaps he knows because there are people on the thread who have begun to realize that there is a chance that the objective approach might have some value, afterall. And, perhaps those people have been passing on PM's and emails to get another opinion on them. Could the secret communications pipeline have sprung a leak? [The next thing to happen will be a bunch more PM's asking each other who did it. Of course, the one(s) who did it won't say, for fear of being removed from the select list ... the "Council of the Sacred Cow".] The post I'm responding to shows the wording of the NEON agreement that was what would have normally been on the HDIE agreement if IBM had been licensed to sell HDIE's solution. More ammo to support my hypothesis. I'm still not going to claim victory, though, because I haven't heard back from IBM .... yet. Perhaps I'm wrong. If so, that would be good for HDIE longs, and I'll apologize. If not ... perhaps David Furstenburg would apologize to me. By the way, I just spent a little time perusing the Yahoo HDIE thread. I rarely go there because the quality of discussion is typically much lower there. Interestingly enough, it seems there might be some disagreement regarding the credibility of certain people. Very interesting reading. Good luck to HDIE longs! Y'all have a nice day. TED