[While the U.S. president has an e-mail address and favors preventing taxation of Internet commerce, the U.S. government has, in fact, hurt the industry by imposing] brain-dead legislation on privacy and the export of encryption, ... And outside of the U.S., I worry about taxation [of Internet commerce]. It's logical to assume that governments will want a piece of the action. |
Al is a great guy, he leads an extraordinarily important company with an amazing technology, but they have some people issues to work through, ... I wish them all the luck in the world. |
All of our Web-based usage has been about asynchronous communication. We will move by the end of this year to a concurrent model, |
All of our Web-based usage has been about asynchronous communication. We will move by the end of this year to a concurrent model. The next logical step is to deal with voice communication. |
I'd spent my entire career with a publicly traded company, ... As Lotus became a less independent company, my thought was that my true skills would get less of a workout. This late in my career wasn't the time to be running a lab for IBM. |
It's not just about business consequences, |
It's not just about business consequences. There are human and social consequences as well. |
quantum leap in the way civilization works. |
The first 3 years IBM left us alone and we made our milestones, ... But the last couple of years, as some IBM units struggled, we started to get pressure to do more back-end integration. |
The OSD specification is a tremendous benefit to organizations seeking to provide a standards-based solution for online software distribution, |
The OSD specification is a tremendous benefit to organizations seeking to provide a standards-based solution for online software distribution. |
The whole situation breaks my heart, ... We were on top of the world through 1999 and some how in a year the wheels have started to come off. |