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To: Rockingham

Words have meaning ... particularly in the legal sense.

... was your intent to deliberately mislead me and the one other person that might look at your posts?


165 posted on 06/14/2014 3:25:31 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
My understanding is that the convictions of NCR, Thomas Watson, Sr. and several other NCR executives were due to a scheme by which they secretly bought up used NCR machines at high prices and then undersold competitors in order to drive them out of business. Earlier, as a salesman for NCR, Watson was known to sabotage the machines of competitors.

The point of course -- which you seem to be determined to divert attention from using low comments -- is that bad, even illegal business behavior is not incompatible with the pursuit of genuine innovations in technology. Thus, in later years, Thomas Watson, Sr., built IBM's original business of punch card tabulators into pioneering lines of modern business computers that virtually created and defined the market for such machines. In order to do so, Watson consistently put large sums into research and development, even during the Depression.

Perhaps Rossi or someone else will soon bring to market "an impossible machine" in the form of a practical cold fusion device. Again, I see a favorable indication as being that a US venture fund in North Caroline evaluated Rossi and his background, had additional third party testing done on his E-Cat, and then proceeded with an investment in them. Events will tell if they are fools or visionaries.

166 posted on 06/14/2014 5:37:19 PM PDT by Rockingham
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