Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking 235
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lousyd writes "Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel and current instructor at Stanford Business School, has a message for industry. He believes that health care and energy, especially, could learn a lesson from computing's innovative and relatively government-free history. He asks students to imagine if mainframe vendors had asked government to prop them up in the same way that General Motors recently was. On the issue of computer patents, he insists that firms must use their patents or lose them: 'You can't just sit on your a** and give everyone the finger.'"
Re:use em or lose'm for patents doesn't fix much (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stop letting Stanford Business School people .. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:use em or lose'm for patents doesn't fix much (Score:3, Funny)
Andy Grove said, "You can't just sit on your a** and give everyone the finger." And later he added, "Hey you kids, get off my damn lawn!" ;-)
I think Andy Grove deserves more respect than you are giving him. Remember, this is a man who can vocalise two asterisks in a row.
Re:So, what's the answer supposed to be? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So, what's the answer supposed to be? (Score:2, Funny)