At 03:02 PM 8/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah, and where is Eugene now?  I wonder what his take is on this. (being
both a
>software vendor and a lawyer)
>
>Hmm...  You are on retainer for a company that decides to sue your software
>company.  It could get real interesting!
They, the law firm, simply declare a conflict of interest.  In the case of
forensic accountants, we went thru all but one of the big 6 before we found
one (KPMG) that hadn't dealt with Carolian/Delrina/Symantec.

>ps.  Not that this kind of thing would ever happen to VESOFT.  :-)
Trust me, it can happen to even the nicest of people (and in the process
leave them less nice than they were originally).





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