Hugh Pritchard <m20614@mwvm.mitre.org> (06/28/91)
Larry Lippman writes: > In a recent article <telecom11.487.1@eecs.nwu.edu> John G. > DeArmond (emory!Dixie.Com!jgd@gatech.edu) spins an amusing yarn about > his alleged involvement with an AOS operation. >> Just as we were turning up the first system, the founders of this >> startup phone company sold the company. The new owner was, shall >> we say, unsavory. He decided that he did not want to pay royalities >> or allow us to own the program -which we had the right to. So he >> addressed the problem in the usual mob manner - he sent some goons over >> to kidnap us while they stole our equipment and software. > By golly, what a tale! Mr. DeArmond was "kidnapped by goons > from the mob"! Mr. DeArmond may have just been dramatizing things: The new owners of the client company may have invited him and his associate to a social event (Lunch? Drinks? A picnic for families of employees and contractors?) whilst they removed his stuff (client-furnished?) from his sub-leased office. I've heard of similar events. Hugh Pritchard, [(703) 883-] 6616 hapritch@mitre.org