28 Jan
2012
28 Jan
'12
9:22 p.m.
> Vault Corporation.
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Thanks for the memory-tickler. It was funny in a way,
talk about
making strategic errors--even back in the pre-Internet days, the word
traveled quickly--and got magnified with every recounting. I
wondered when it would get to exploding floppies...
I need to mention that my description of the incident is NOT based on
first-hand knowledge. All of that was from "news" stories in Infoworld
and PC-Week, some as news articles and a little from Spencer Catt (sp?)
and Robert Cringely, plus just a few personal discussions with some folk
who were Prolock customers before that.
Vault Corp. got what they deserved.
I don't believe that I have magnified it any further than the absolutely
amazing original story. It it, however, close to unbelievable that
anybody would make such a public announcement, apparently with NO attempt
to check with a lawyer about legality of retaliation (a helluva lot of
people can't differentiate revenge V "justice", nor even revenge V
"self-defense"), nor check with ANYBODY with common sense over what the
PR would be!
("We will rape the horses and ride off on the women!")
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com