Try doing business with Bill Gates...

"Sometime down the road you need to rob the guy!"

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Starkey <jas@...>
Date: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:11 am
Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Borland IB6.5 vs Firbird 1.0 Features

> At 10:43 PM 2/14/02 -0500, Robert F. Tulloch wrote:
> >> > Borland is one of the very few companies to whom
> >> > Enron could teach business ethics.
> >
> > What in the world does this statement mean??
> >
>
> A "senior" Inprise executive on contracts:
>
> "You shouldn't get hung up on legalisms. A contract isn't like
> a promise between friends. A contract is just a business deal.
> If there's an opportunity cost to fulfilling it, like you
> need the resources to develop a new product, just shag it.
> Sometime down the road you will need to pay the guy's legal
> costs and buy out the rest of the contract."
>
> Jim Starkey
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