Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants
"Vic Cross" <[email protected]>
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--- In [email protected], "commanonce" <philp@i...> wrote: > At one point they paid $10 million for six sides of paper - the > contents of which they already knew. Shows either IBM's unmitigated gall in asking for the money, or Amdahl's stupidity in paying it. > I find this extremely hard to reconcile with the repeated > assertion that Hercules is based entirely on information in the > public domain. See point above: just because one is silly enough to pay money for information one already knows, does not prove the information was worth what was paid. To either party. Perhaps Amdahl simply woke up to what was going on when it came to zArch, and called IBM's bluff. Cheers, Vic Cross ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption! http://us.click.yahoo.com/JjlUgA/vN2EAA/kG8FAA/dpFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: hercules-advocacy-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/