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Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It
Esther Schindler writes "Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Dearly Departed, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities — and mourns the best and brightest that died an untimely death. What companies or products would you add? Which of them deserved to go?"
spread across 19 pages DESERVES TO DIE!!!
Since the story was submitted by Esther Schindler, can we call this Schindler's List?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
There is nothing
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as i have learned from reading slashdot, dilbert, and hanging out in the 'linux community', all non-tech staff at a corporation are useless dead weight, hangers on with dragging knuckles and pea sized brains. if only they could be eliminated, society would become a technological utopia. marketing, sales, management, HR, and so forth, are all worthless wastes of time.
and yet, here you come, now telling me that marketing, sales, and management are somehow 'important' and should be payed 'attention to'?
hogwash. we all know that the perfect corporation would make products that we give away for free, have no management, HR, marketing, sales, or customer service staff, and uhm. yeah. we could all live off our wives or in our parents basement.
i for one, will never abandon the True Software view of reality.
if you get paid.
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> Since the story was submitted by Esther Schindler, can we call this Schindler's List?
You mean that these companies are all still surviving in a bunker or warehouse somewhere? Send my love to WordPerfect 14, wherever she is!
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Ok, you named the first of the items from the top ten of lame top ten lists on Slashdot. So what are the other nine items? :-)
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> ad-laden? Bin-laden's brother?
No, bin-laden's brother would have to be src-laden.