A CC of my letter to Gelernter at cs.yale.edu
Mike McNally
m5 at vail.tivoli.com
Tue May 10 14:11:54 PDT 1994
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).
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