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dirtball
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [XEROX PARC] A small, perhaps struggling outsider; not in the major or
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even the minor leagues. For example, Xerox is not a dirtball company.
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[Outsiders often observe in the PARC culture an institutional arrogance
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which usage of this term exemplifies. The brilliance and scope of PARC's
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contributions to computer science have been such that this superior attitude
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is not much resented.
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