[geeks] Amusing HP interview

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:29:12PM +1300, Gavin Hubbard wrote:

> "Q: Has it been difficult educating HP customers of Itanium?
> 
> Yes, because we have the flat earth society out there. If you go to
> the people who thought the earth was flat they believe there is a
> paradigm and you have got customers who believe this is true. "This
> can't possibly be true. You have this Itanium stuff and I have heard
> it all before and you can't demonstrate it and it will never happen,"
> they say. So they believe the earth was flat and you drop off the
> edge. This is the same with our competitors too. They want the flat
> earth society to keep existing, because they don't want people to wake
> up and smell the roses. People are just not taking it up as well as we
> would like them too. But in the long term it is a winner. " 
> 
> Am I the only person who thinks that insulting your customers is not
> the way to promote your product strategy? 

I believe that the resident member of FELFAT might have something to say
about that.

PS.  Dave, what happened to http://www.flat-earth.org/?  I get some
carpet store crap now.