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From: Perry and Lorae Merritt (plmerritt, hypermall dot net)
Date: 2002.02.10 - 14.44 MST


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So, if I had been able to get you guys to work for free and give away your C
code, you'd all be rich now? Sorry I let you down.

Ok all kidding aside, there was some good stuff in there. My biggest problem
is, if we learn from their example, I won't have a job in the company. (That
was a reference to incompetent managers).

Ok really now, being serious now, I think we should adopt their original
payroll structure. Get to work and you'll get paid when the client pays.

Come on now, Jay meant well with this article, don't be such a jerk. There
really was some good stuff in there. I think we all want to build a culture
similar to what they had in the pre-VC days. Some day when we're all able,
I'll buy you a beer or two and tell you the agonizing story of how we've
been trying to prevent our investors from running the company. Time will
tell I suppose, but I think we're doing a pretty good job so far. If we
start making stupid decisions or worse yet, unethical decisions, I'd expect
each of us to call "us" on it.

If we can get through the Moday meeting that Dan mentioned, we should be
well on our way. Keep your fingers and toes crossed.

BTW Dan and I met with the patent attorney Friday. He's not a labor lawyer,
but he thinks our teraguard solution is safe from Tricord claiming it. The
problem we in the employee agreement that we all signed. It said anything we
did up to 12 months from leaving Tricord would be theirs. He says this is
unenforceable. I combined the provisionals into one patent. The lawyer says
it should get filed Monday. They will fix wording, adding legaleze, and try
to add a few more claims. I should get their revisions on Monday also.

We modified our product placement to a single product, TeraGuard. It has all
of the same features as before, we just added one that supports expandable
storage on the backend. TeraGuard is being positioned as a Storage Resource
Management product, which moves it out of "directly relating to Tricord's
business". We don't have any patents on the expander stuff yet so they have
nothing to come after and the expander concept is already open source, so
they can't claim we took any IP from them. This is all REALLY good news.

P

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Miller" <jnmiller, colorado dot edu>
To: <antera, enigma dot cryptofreak.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 2:13 PM
Subject: More network news, and a good read.


> Hello.  Just wanted to inform everyone that though the list was down for
> a day or two, it's back.  My ISP changed my static IPs on me and I had
> to wait for the new DNS address to filter though the system.
>
> Also, some of you may know already that ArsDigita finally shut down in
> the last couple days.  The local geek heros Philip Greenspun and Eve
> Andersson (founders of the company) have some text on the matter
> of startup companies that looks fairly applicable to our situation.
> It's a look at both how and how not to run a company.
>
> Eve's account of the rise and fall:
> http://eveander.com/arsdigita-history
>
> And archived copy of Greenspun's account of same:
> http://webseitz.fluxent.com/articles/GreenspunOnArsDigitaLawsuit
>
> Quick reads, and not too boring, either.
>
> --
> Jay Miller
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