On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:53:19 -0500 William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

- over-estimating market potential to sell stocks.

what the hell does this have to do with whether people choose to use Realplayer?

- inability to generate revenue from actual sales.

...because some company convicted of being an illegal monopoly is pulling the rug out from under you.

- buying too many BMWs and having too much tan.

WTF?

- reckless disregard for proper management practice. - hiring too many MBAs. - hiring too few programmers.

If you put that in print, they'd sue you for libel, and win.

- failure to merchandize RealPlayer to manufacturers and content providers/creators.

see #2

- failure to bring about a buyout offer from Microsoft.

see Austin's response... Man, you are some piece o' work, there William. And I should know, I'm a shit-disturber from waaaaaaay back. *plonk* -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml