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To: Bob Willis who wrote (2125)	4/18/2000 8:55:00 PM
From: jhg_in_kc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2467

what did he do to QDEK? eom

To: Bob Willis who wrote (2125)	4/19/2000 11:35:00 AM
From: hueyone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2467

You asked anyone care to comment on what he did QDEK shareholders? Is this one of those posts designed to sow seeds of "VAGUE DOUBT", or what? Obviously, many of us do not know what he purportedly did to QDEK shareholders. Why don't you clearly state what you think he did to QDEK shareholders and then maybe some other knowledgeable LHSP shareholder can intelligently agree or disagree. I will have to read your response when I sign back on this evening. Regards, Huey

To: Bob Willis who wrote (2125)	4/19/2000 1:11:00 PM
From: jhg_in_kc	Respond to of 2467

Three of us on the thread are demanding you put up or shut up. Just what did Gaston allegedly do. Either you know or you don,t and you are just trying to unsettle people because you are a swine. Nothing personal, of course.

To: Bob Willis who wrote (2125)	4/20/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Graham Seibert	Respond to of 2467

Gaston was CEO of Quarterdeck (QDEK) for about a year in 1996. QDEK's main businesses were add-in memory for PCs and some communications packages (ProComm?) they had bought. They were dying because advances in processors, Windows, and the Internet model as represented by AOL and Compuserve were killing their core businesses. Gaston tried to move them to a suite of Internet-related products. Whether or not it was his fault, he didn't get them over fast enough and the company cratered in late 1996. Gaston jumped/was pushed when the stock had fallen by half. It fell much more before the company was bought out. One hears that a) the QDEK owners were not supportive of Gaston's moves, also b) Gaston announced stuff, especially in the area of voice recognition, that was truly vaporware, a long way in the future. To his credit, Gaston got a job with QDEK supplier LHSP and brought along Ellen Spooren, Anatoly Tikhman and other visionaries from QDEK. It appears to me that they have had time at LHSP to realize the dreams they shared at QDEK. Graham