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Geoff Hart wrote:
> If I were Microsoft, the lesson would be quite clear to me: Hire
> Pogue for $1 million per manual, and pocket $3 million in profit.
Ah, but then it wouldn't be the Missing Manual anymore - it would just be
the Manual, so it would lose some cachet. And it would be subject to
editorial control from Redmond. Worse yet, Redmond would demand the book be
finished simultaneously with product rollout, so quality would suffer.
