Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants

> >  However legal it might
> > yet prove to have been, some in IBM might feel Jan "put one over" 
on
> > them.
> 
> They probably wouldn't be justified in thinking so with regard to 
this
> episode of SIE block info  -- for instance, if they put it out there
> without restriction, and he subsequently found it and used it, then 
if
> they are upset about it they have only their own architecture 
manager to
> blame.

This is another area - or an extension of the same one - where many 
false assumptions exist.  People out in the industry assume that the 
PCMs and IBM were always at each other's throats and conflict was 
always the order of the day.  True - we pulled stunts, like my famous 
placement of a trackside banner opposite IBM's entetainment facility 
at Donington - but basically there was a great deal of respect for 
IBM's intellectual property.  Sales commission plans and price lists -
 highly confidential stuff, sometimes, WAS returned unread.  One 
company's slipup generated some smirking on occasions, but generally 
we got on very professionally.  Amdahl, for instance, would have 
called IBM and notified them that the material was on view.


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