For the benefit of non-US readers: Ross Perot was a third party candidate for President in 1992 and 1996 who ran on a platform opposing adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
I've rewatched the 92 debates a few times in the last few months, and it's crazy how spot on he was... it's also worth noting that the 92 debates were what scared the two parties into corrupting the debate process, joining together to push out the League of Women Voters and to control the stage to prevent disruptive third-parties from being so publicly anti-establishment.
He was a pretty good speaker in person. I went to his speech in Fargo to see what he was about. His book the campaign put together was actually pretty well reasoned and a lot more concrete than the other campaigns' materials. My brother joined his party and we got 20% off a hotel room, so I guess hooking up the corporate discounts worked.
I cannot really argue with the results, but I didn't much care for EDS and some of their sayings. The whole "eagles fly alone" is factually wrong (watch a video of them eating) and just plain stupid in the context of software development.
EDS have had some massive failures here in the UK, they have a pretty terrible reputation (though they can't take all the blame, government is just crap at IT procurement generally).
Also, to be fair to Perot, EDS has been a long time without his leadership. It was 1984 when GM bought EDS, and that started quite a tussle. In 1996, EDS became independent and in 2008, it got bought by HP.
