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The Innovators' Ball

Posted by michael on from the preach-it dept.

Babylon Rocker writes "Latest Cringely: The Innovators' Ball: Why Business Isn't as Fun as it Used to be. 'Sharp business is cheating and not getting caught.'"

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  1. News flash! by EdgeShadow · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This just in... our sources have just informed us that there are business executives out there who lie, cheat, and even steal! I'll take this oppurtunity to warn all decent folk out there to think twice when making dealings with such evil, evil men.

    Seriously though, since when is the common practice of "savvy businessmen" screwing trusting people out of money news?

  2. kdict on "innovate" by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
    Innovate \In"no*vate\, v. i.
    • To introduce novelties or changes; -- sometimes with in or on. --Bacon.

    • Every man,therefore,is not fit to innovate. --Dryden.
    WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]
    innovate
    • v : bring something new to an environment; "A new word processor was introduced" [syn: introduce]

    So, Microsoft is proud of introducing changes (often created by others?), as opposed to inventing anything of their own.
    Now, that makes total sense

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