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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!newsun!gateway.novell.com!terry From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <1992Aug6.175618.20419@gateway.novell.com> Date: 6 Aug 92 17:56:18 GMT References: <KANDALL.92Aug5175428@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <7066@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1992Aug6.135607.5620@crd.ge.com> Sender: news@gateway.novell.com (NetNews) Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT Lines: 54 Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com In article <1992Aug6.135607.5620@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: > Finally Betty said, "Let's get Bob the builder to look at your house >and mine, and see if you are still using any of my materials, or things >built from my blueprint, or if the whole foundation still looks like >mine." > > But Tony said, "No, I only want to have him look at the bay windows >and the floor joists, or you can pick three details to let him think >about. And by the way I want to use my good buddy, Elmo, who used to >work for me and really knows my stuff." Hey! Didn't these guys live in California or something?!? Yeah! I remember now! I thought Tony said "This house is a model house, which I expect people to be able to add on to. Anybody who wants to pay me what would be a days rent in one of your houses, Betty, can walk all over it and look at it and rip out the joists and see if anything, even the knot holes, match those of any other house. Even you". And Betty paid Tony, and walked all over the house, bashing things with her crowbar, and generally wrecked the house for anybody who wanted to buy it and live there, but never pointed at the windows or doors or even the insulation or the smallest carpet tack to say "that was daddy's!". And no one wanted Tony's house any more, even though Tony had taken a great deal of pride in his work and put forth a lot of effort, because it had Betty's crow-bar marks all over it. And now Betty wants you to buy her ugly, expensive pre-fab houses that you can't even put your own appliances in without paying her $150,000 for the right to do so (and Betty's appliances suck). Face it: Betty is a manager, not a house builder like her dad, and probably couldn't build a house someone would choose to live in to save her life. Her only choice (besides learning to build houses, which she refuses to do, since she might get her hands dirty or break a nail) is to put real house builders out of work. Then she can sell her cracker-boxes that no one wants to buy any way, because that's all that's left. And Betty's friends get all upset when the people forced to live in her cracker-boxes call her a bitch. Like Mr. Davidsen says: Any resemblence to persons living, dead, foolish or greedy, or any company or organization is in the mind of the reader. Terry Lambert terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.