[ppml] Mo's Law

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:24:00PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> i myself was a beame and whiteside fan, though i had friends at ftp
> software and other ip-on-windows companies.  the common belief was that
> with microsoft coming 20 years late to the party, they would be an also-ran.
> (i think similar thoughts were spoken aloud when internet explored came
> out in a mostly-mosaic web community.)  hopefully a lesson was learned?

	ftp software kicked B&W to the curb... :)
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> that lesson is, the installed base is meaningless, and how we did it before
> is meaningless, all that matters is getting growth right.
	
	Mike O'dell...  Mo's Law.  1994

--bill