Re: [asa] Proof (was: Our discourse here)

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Dehler, Bernie <bernie.dehler@intel.com> wrote:

> It would be like if you claimed to make a CPU from scratch, not copying from my company.  My company would inspect your work to see if there's a lawsuit.  If they see things copied- you're dead!  I heard rumors that some designers on some products purposely put in weird things just to see if their work is copied- it is a powerful argument in a court of law.  DEC used to be a company that made advanced computers, and I heard a joke that they used to write on their circuit board "when you care to copy from the very best" so the Russians would have that when they steal our technology.  See this for the funny picture and more info:
> http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
>

I wonder if that joke was the inspiration for this spoof that went
round the internet a few years back:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsux.htm

about supposedly a pair of Intel engineers who expressed their
feelings about Bill Gates by etching "Bill Sux" onto the surface of
one of the Pentium chips.

The spoofed picture is nicely done though.

Iain

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Received on Thu Feb 26 13:46:25 2009