🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, here's the situation as I understand it:  Bob talked to some guy in DAP who
told him he could get the source code.  Based on this he quit his job and
invested $100,000 in his project.  Evetually he found out from somebody else
that IBM _could_not_ legally provide the source code, because Microsoft
wouldn't let them.  And now he's mad at IBM?

Bob made a (very serious) mistake, the DAP guy (either deliberately or
accidentally) was wrong, Microsoft is just being generally scummy towards OS/2,
but I can see no fault here in either IBM or their DAP (it was mentioned that
the employee in question was no longer with IBM.  Whether voluntarily or not,
we'll probably never know, but I wouldn't be surprised at the latter).

All in all, this whole thing was quite unfortunate all round, but blaming IBM
for all of it seems to me to be both completely pointless and wrong.

And the point about a written contract was a good one.  As it appears to me,
one guy at IBM was giving out wrong information.  The red tape of a written
contract would have confirmed that what Bob wanted was, in fact, not possible.
He wouldn't have gotten the contract, would have been told the problem right
out, and would have been spared a great deal of expense.

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