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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: DEC memo
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Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 16:57:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 24 16:57:30 1985
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> OK, pal.  Where did you get this? Yo in a heap o trouble, boy. This 
> 	.  .  .	
> 	.  .  .	
> 3) This memo was strickly confidential. You have broken several 
> laws. I do not know whether you will be prosecuted. If you really 
> want to know what happens when the shit hits the fan, stick 
> around. I will be sending this to our legal department. They will 
> want to know where you got it. You are in a lot of trouble, 
> whether this memo was fabricated, or NOT.
> 	.  .  .	
> 	.  .  .	
> 					John Williams
> 				Digital Equipment Corperation

Um, John, I hate to break it to you, but (1) there is no law against the
publishing this memo, and (2) it wasn't confidential anyway.  That memo was
released by Ken Olsen's office several years ago, as a way of demonstrating
how concerned Ken is about the quality of the product.  The product Ken was
talking about is (was) a real loser, and his interest in low-level quality
is one of the reasons that product was a relative rarity in the DEC line.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	Unix Consultant
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