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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Firing of David Ramsey
Message-ID: <387@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 01:03:09 GMT
References: <14980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <7776@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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>In article <14980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter) writes:
>In this week's issue of MacWeek there is a short article about Apple
>firing MacPaint 2.0 author David Ramsey.  Apparently he disclosed 
>confidential information in messages posted on Compuserve's MacPro
>Forum.  
>
>Anybody know more about this?  This was all MacWeek said about it.

I'm told he repeated something that Sculley had mentioned in a speech some
time ago about Apple's future plans. During the current paranoia in Apple
after recent events I guess he chose the wrong time ...

What did he repeat? Well .... if Apple fired him I'm not about to get sued :-|
						   smiley with sealed lips -^


	Paul


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