Jeff Young wrote:
metcalfe understands the issues only too well. only the truly blessed can blindly exploit half-truths. he is not blessed and he is not blind.
i have no doubt that his campaign will succeed. he is bright, has built companies, used to be a technically saavy engineer. the trick will be to bide our time, he will go away in the end. hopefully his winnings will be modest this time.
You made him to look cunning and evil. I'd like to make him to look ridiculous. That's harmless at least and there's a chance that this will make him to go away. Actually i don't understand what his motivation is. It appears that it is not material; and any decent person wouldn't just go and use somebody else's problems as a ladder to do social climbing. --vadim
i think he's just bored. he's done it all and his name hasn't been in the press enough lately. although the latest ieee spectrum has him on the cover with a big slide rule. i gotta find the time to read that article. perhaps he's fishing for venture capital for something new and needs good press (or any press - or any press is good press). perhaps it has something to do with the internet :-) i used to think that he was ridiculous as well, but it's just too easy. he might not fully understand the issues but i'm sure that there are a hundred or so folks who used to work for him who would be glad to explain them to him over the phone. i think that there is a purpose here. Jeff Young young@mci.net
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Jeff Young wrote:
metcalfe understands the issues only too well. only the truly blessed can blindly exploit half-truths. he is not blessed and he is not blind.
i have no doubt that his campaign will succeed. he is bright, has built companies, used to be a technically saavy engineer. the trick will be to bide our time, he will go away in the end. hopefully his winnings will be modest this time.
You made him to look cunning and evil. I'd like to make him to look ridiculous. That's harmless at least and there's a chance that this will make him to go away.
Actually i don't understand what his motivation is. It appears that it is not material; and any decent person wouldn't just go and use somebody else's problems as a ladder to do social climbing.
--vadim
On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Jeff Young wrote:
perhaps he's fishing for venture capital for something new and needs good press (or any press - or any press is good press). perhaps it has something to do with the internet :-)
Pay-per-view Internet services like "micro-money" transactions to access websites a la Ted Nelson's Xanadu and just generally a tiered structure of services so that the upper classes can pay more and use the bus lanes on the infobahn.... Read through the back issues of his column at http://www.infoworld.com if you really want to know what he has in mind. Personally, I think all those nickel-and-dime ideas went out when the videotext industry failed. Prodigy was the only one to survive using precisely the model of today's Internet. You pay an access fee and all the content-providers let you look at the content for free but sell ads all over the place to finance their websites. Michael Dillon ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
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