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From: doug@feedme.UUCP (Doug Salot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Microport Status
Message-ID: <310@feedme.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 02:35:15 GMT
References: <315@uport.UUCP> <96473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6385@bsu-cs.UUCP> <96729@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: doug@feedme.UUCP (Doug Salot)
Organization: Feedme Microsystems, Orange County, CA
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In article <96729@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@sun.COM (John Plocher) writes:
>	I tried to obtain the legal rights to Microport's driver source
>	before I left, but because of SEC regulations about insider trading
>	I would have had to pay "full asset value" for them, and I didn't
>	have the ~$250K that it would have taken. :-(

I might be willing to contribute a few $K and some engineering resources
if someone were to negotiate a Microport buyout and form a limited
partnership.  A global support network comprised of Microport users,
anyone?


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Doug Salot || doug@feedme.UUCP || ...{zardoz,dhw68k}!feedme!doug