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Re: white paper - let's try again.

Subject: Re: white paper - let's try again.
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: Andrea Brundt <andrea_w_brundt -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:29:40 -0500

Andrea,

Its use in the tech sector is a simple corruption, by marketing types, of the original use. There's no magic in that; marketing people co-opt words from other fields and corrupt their meanings all the time, and it was ever thus. To be fair, though, your original post did sound as if you were looking for the earliest use of the term, not specifically the earliest use in tech marketing.

Dick

Andrea Brundt wrote:

In response to my question about the term "white paper", a couple of people
pointed me to www.m-w.com. My question was actually about the origin of the
term -- specifically, its use in the tech sector. Anyone have more insight
than a one-sentence dictionary definition?




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