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From: dcd@cactus.org (Danny C. Deng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
Message-ID: <1992Jul28.032413.7565@cactus.org>
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:24:13 GMT
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In article <s6j1Hp4!q8@atlantis.psu.edu> hvozda@wilbur.psu.edu (Eric Hvozda) 
writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.222121.20426@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu 
>(Fredrik Nyman) writes:
>>
>>Comments?
>
>Indeed!
>
>This whole mess reminds me of an article I read about two companies in
>Eastern PA.  Company X had setup shop in a small town.  The plant was the
>town's livelyhood.  Company X decided to pull out.  A new company, company Y,
>who is a competitor of X, decided to purchase the old plant.  They offer jobs
>to most of X's employees that X had layed-off.
>
>Just as Y is about to open the plant, X contents that none of their former
>employee can work for Y, since they would be using proprietary information
>while working for Y.
>
>X has filed suit against Y and serveral of their former employees.
>
>X and Y are cheese manufactures.  I beleive X==Kraft.
>
>This was in WSJ and AP had a few stories about it awhile ago.
>
>It is a shame companies can be so petty over such things when all poeple want
>to do is make a living...
>
>hvozda@vivaldi.psu.edu           hvozda@wilbur.psu.edu            DoD #0217

In 1945, after KMT (Chang Kai-Shek) won the war with Japan, the vice president,
Mr. Chen Chang, declared to cut (layoff in modern terms) the army in large
scale, because China at that time cannot feed that many soldiers.  Hundreds 
of thousands of soldiers lost their "job".  Their farms and houses were 
destroyed in the war.  Most of them had no places to go and knew only the 
fighting in the past decade.  Mao told them that if KMT doesn't want you, 
we communist want you.  He also promised them that after we take over China, 
every one will get a piece of land (of course, he takes the land back later.)  
Mao took them all and organized them to become the red army.  In two years 
after 1946, KMT was defeated and Chang fled to Taiwan.

Too bad Chang Kai-Shek didn't have Uncle Sam's democratic system to protect
him.  Otherwise he could sue Mao like Kraft did to company Y.