[DUG] You say potatoe I say....

[Robert martin]

Yeah I agree. He really did get a bit pissed :)

I have to agree with Paul Brislen, whenever something is for sale the 
Seller ALWAYS overstates the interest in the product. If Borland had 
said no, real interest so far but its early days (not that im saying 
thats the case), then they would be dead in the water when it comes to 
talking dollars with a buyer, can you imagine it....

Buyer, I want to buy your software division.
Borland, OK 1 Billion $.
Buyer, Come of it, 50k. Take it or leave it.
Borland, We have other options.
Buyer, Laughs, knowing thats not the case.

As for Nicks whole 'they would be in serious legal trouble if they 
lied'... Come if it! If they lied and it when to court (as if), they 
could simply state their definition of interest was 'how much chat group 
interest created' or some such.

If I was brislen I would have given up far earlier.

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax   +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd



Wayne Roser wrote:

>Wow. 
>a) Did Nick go off the deep end and/or 
>b) am I just a biased kiwi who used to really enjoy "Fry Up" when Paul Brislen was writing it and/or
>c) something else. Please specify:
>
>Reminds me of my days in the Macintosh*** Users Group when a PC* ** nazi mentioned any comparison
>between the aforementioned hated product and the aforementioned glorious Macintosh***.
>
>Wayne
>
>*hiss
>** and I hesitate to put the beloved machine name in the same sentence (twice) as the hated
>fascist/communist/dictatorship/pseudodemocratic/evil phrase "PC"*
>***all bow in silence for several seconds.
>
>
>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz> on Wednesday, 22 March 2006 at
>4:21 p.m. +0000 wrote:
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>>http://www.lemanix.com/nickblog/Articles.aspx?=BadTechWriting
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>>
>>Funny stuff. 
>>
>>It’s interesting how quickly these things escalate into slinging matches.
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