[Am-info] Microsoft Spy (?) Resigns

[Eric M. Bennett]

Paul Rickard wrote:

>     According to news reports, Lotus CEO Jeff Papows has handed in his
>resignation, effective February 1. You may recall earlier this year it
>was uncovered that most qualifications listed on his resume were trumped
>up or outright false, and at the time he was accused of being a Microsoft
>mole/saboteur who had been screwing Lotus up for several years (Lotus
>employees I've heard from hate him more than Gates). Just thought this
>was interesting, even if it is somewhat off topic.. (Just call it a break
>from bundling, if you will)

Well, he *did* gripe about Microsoft in front of the Senate Judiciary 
committee.  Even if he did screw up the company, I don't seem him 
being a Microsoft mole.  Sometimes I wonder if this is a symptom of 
smart people staying away from companies that are in Microsoft's 
crosshairs (looking at Microsoft's other competition in this area, I 
can't say Cowpland is any better than Papows).

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Eric Bennett / ericb@pobox.com / emb22@cornell.edu  www.pobox.com/~ericb/
Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
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