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I am surprised nobody here has yet mentioned the real case of what happened to Evan Brown, the former president of the Dallas Ft Worth Unix Users Group who work
by jbrazile 10y ago
I am surprised nobody here has yet mentioned the real case of what happened to Evan Brown, the former president of the Dallas Ft Worth Unix Users Group who worked at a telephone switch company as a system administrator and had an idea for a generic code translator.
Maybe the New York Times tells it best:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/08/business/an-idea-not-yet-born-but-a-custody-fight.html http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/08/business/an-idea-not-yet-b...
- zem 10y agointeresting case. the everything2 writeup seems better than the nyt one: http://everything2.com/title/The+Thoughts+of+Evan+Brown http://everything2.com/title/The+Thoughts+of+Evan+Brown
- ScottBurson 10y agoAh, thank you. Yes, that puts quite a different light on it.
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- Asooka 10y agoThat and the e2 article both don't mention what actually happened in the end, does anyone know? Presumably Mr. Brown liquidated everything, ran out of money and died a beggar on the streets.
- jbrazile 10y agoI wondered that myself having left DSC and moved away from DFW long before the story concluded. Some details from 2000... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.dcom.telecom/SqmtzRHWsXM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.dcom.telecom/Sq... And a few more from 2004... http://www.law360.com/articles/1899/appeals-court-affirms-ex-employee-s-idea-belongs-to-alcatel http://www.law360.com/articles/1899/appeals-court-affirms-ex...
- zem 10y agoi wonder too. i spent a good half hour googling and could not find out.