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tjogin on Nov 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Couri...

How do you kill something that was never alive in the first place?

Sembiance on Nov 1, 2011 [–]

Did you read the article? The Courier was VERY MUCH alive. Over 130 employees working on it with custom hardware prototypes and many systems very far along. It was certainly... killed.

sambeau on Nov 1, 2011 | [–]

I guess this comes down to a when-does-life-begin argument.

The courier was busy being born when it was killed.

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