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To: TPT who wrote (80914)	2/4/2002 3:43:55 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 93625

Hi TPT, I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. [[Aside: Without understanding your personal relationship, I felt that I was reading some right wing polemic and didn't feel I could let it slide. ]] -Ray

To: TPT who wrote (80914)	2/4/2002 10:41:40 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi TPT; Re: "I didn't write the message...merely forwarded it. I'll leave the discussion on tax policy to the "experts". Fred was a fellow pilot." If your purpose was to remember Fred as a pilot, then why go to the trouble of reposting an article that didn't even mention what kind of plane the guy flew? Or what awards he won? There were only four sentences in the whole thing that had anything to do with aircraft, pilots or what he loved to do, and only one of them was yours. The rest were copied from the original article. The article was not about Fred as a pilot, it was about Fred as a stock market "victim". This is hardly the place to go to get sympathy for Fred. He may have been a great guy, but he worked for a company that was convicted of criminal activity. By noting that Fred worked for these guys (for so many years) you're not exactly polishing his memory. Re: "... Rambus encountered some very adverse legal rulings on patents, ..." Translation: The company was convicted of fraud in a trial punctuated by multiple acts of perjury by the management. Now they're flooded with shareholder lawsuits. Re: "... some of the company's critical business partnerships starting wavering." Translation: The company lied to Intel about what their technology did. This heavily damaged Intel's reputation and chipset business, and it took (and is still taking) Intel years to get out of the problems Rambus created. I mean really! How could someone who was a friend of Fred write: "Being a believer in the company ..."? He joined Rambus in 1996. The implication is that he either had to be remarkably naive, technically incompetent as to the memory business, or directly involved with the fraud and betting on its eventual success. Far better would be to distance his memory as much as possible from Rambus. And that's exactly what the guy who posted the original article to reformAMT did: 208.56.129.199 Note that in the above (original) post, there is zero mention of the word "Rambus". There's a reason for this. Rambus is a pariah company, a criminal enterprise that was convicted of fraud in a US court by a jury. My conclusion is that the guy who wrote the reformAMT article was a true friend of Fred, and not interested in smearing his name by publicly associating it with Rambus. *What's particularly interesting is analyzing the changes you made to the story before reposting it here.* You added the word "Rambus" four times. You added that he was a "co-worker of multiple ReformAMT members." You corrected the spelling of "loose". You removed a few "I understand"s or "I believe"s (which was good editing). And you added "spending his last moments with his plane". I don't think you have anything to do with flying at all, or that you took lessons from him. If you did, you'd have spent more effort describing Fred's abilities, or you would have told us of how he helped you become a better pilot. But there is nothing like that in what you did. You didn't add a description of his beautiful aircraft, or what it and he were capable of. You just don't do a very good imitation of a guy who loves to fly aerobatics. What you did was publicly connect him up to Rambus. That's not exactly a pleasant addition to his memory. It's pretty clear that you're a Rambus employee, not a student of his. I'm guessing that the original poster on reformAMT was a much closer friend. -- Carl P.S. Re: "Fred was a co-worker of multiple ReformAMT members." Well a sincere BWAHAHAHAHA!!! LOL!!! and a BWAHAHAHAHA!!! for all you Rambus employees out there. Hope to read about some of you going to jail where you belong, and it incredibly gladdens my heart to know that several of you totally screwed yourselves with your ill-gotten gains. God knows you tried to screw the industry.