Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!elysium!archer From: archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Doctor Benway) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: logistar (logistan?) and Revlon Message-ID: <1990Oct29.190729.4853@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 29 Oct 90 19:07:29 GMT References: <15913@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Oct27.022442.16115@lavaca.uh.edu> <1990Oct27.161200.18165@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Oct27.220708.29825@eff.uucp> <1990Oct28.123854.17457@hoss.unl.edu> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Distribution: na Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 42 In faustus@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Kurt Ackermann) writes: *In <1990Oct28.123854.17457@hoss.unl.edu> riddle@hoss.unl.edu (Michael H. Riddle) writes: * *>The name of the software firm is LOGISTICON, according to several news *>reports I checked out on the NEXIS service. * *>Unfortunately, none of the reports contained the legal arguments! :-( * *Can anyone cite a written media (or televised media) article with this *story? After seeing it on Thursday morning, I couldn't find a thing *about it in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, or on NPR. Considering *the potential impact of this case, I would think that the media would at *least MENTION it. But I guess that they see it as just another case of *breach of contract/repossession (?) * *It would be much appreciated if someone could post/summarize/give reference *to an article that spells out the details of the circumstances surrounding *this event. * *Let's get chapter and verse on the Net so we can talk with greater *certainty-- I couldn't even remember the name of the damn company and *it had only been two hours since I saw the news report...! * * I read the story in the San Jose Mercury News last week, in the business section (sorry, I forgot the exact day). The sequence of events was pretty straitforward. Revlon contracted software, and then withheld payment, claiming that the software did not meet specification and that they could not use it to run their bus- iness. Logisticon tried to get them to pay for a period of time, and then logged into the computer and disabled the software, causing three Revlon warehouses to shut down. Three days later they re-installed the software. The president of Logisticon said it was the only leverage that he had to get Revlon to pay. I'll try to look up an exact reference. -- When artistic pretension is combined with abject | Archer Sully poverty the results are often VERY STUPID. | -- Crosley Bendix | archer@sgi.com