Dave Otto (the Wizard of TOTOSoft) writes:
Mike McNally says:
a chip whose production is subsidized by the government would probably be pretty cheap. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your tax dollars at work.
True, of course, but looking at things as they are today a lot of my tax dollars are long gone into the pockets of the contractors and NSA people who did the design. A commercial product not using Clipper is at a disadvantage from the get-go. Seems to me this is already true, and short of exploiting the "investment gap" created in the Clipper project by the inherent waste and inefficiency of Government-driven projects, it'd be tough. Certainly, there's a tremendous marketing problem (which, I realize, our evangelism might help ameliorate). -- | GOOD TIME FOR MOVIE - GOING ||| Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com> | | TAKE TWA TO CAIRO. ||| Tivoli Systems, Austin, TX: | | (actual fortune cookie) ||| "Like A Little Bit of Semi-Heaven" |