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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 10:18:18 +0000
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On 01/01/2025 21:33, rbowman wrote:
> wiw, the company I worked for at the times didn't find excellence either
> and is gone. Come to think of it every company I ever worked for directly
> or on contract is gone. Maybe I'm the kiss of death?

Companies exist in a phase of 'rising star' 'mature' 'cash cow' and 
'death spiral'

IBM for example died years ago - the company today is just the old 
business services division.

No company I ever worked for is extant today in anything like its 
original form.


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making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people 
who pay no price for being wrong.”

Thomas Sowell