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So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.
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quoted in Varghese, Sam (2004-10-08). "Staying on the cutting edge". The Age. Retrieved on 2007-01-10. 

 

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