Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Friday, 28 Jun 1991 13:25:45 EDT From: Hugh Pritchard Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Kidnapped by Goons from the Mob!" Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 497, Message 7 of 10 Lines: 26 Larry Lippman writes: > In a recent article 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