Microsoft-Paul Allen

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> That notwithstanding, I have to say, I still think it's ludicrous to
> imply that anything _before_ Win95 could have drawn upon it, even if
> making a negative statement.

"The simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editors, 
having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back 
of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few foot 
notes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous 
Galactic Copyright Laws. Its interesting to note that a later and wilier 
editor sent the book backwards in time, through a temporal warp, and then 
successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the 
same laws."    -HHGTTG


For those prone to misinterpretation, "wilier editor" is NOT a reference 
to "John Wiley & Sons" publishers.