To: Dennis P who wrote (7247 ) 2/10/1998 7:20:00 PM From: Arnie Doolittle Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Dennis, that's a legitimate question and I'm going to answer it with another question: Have you ever heard of a public company requiring a shareholder to sign a nondisclosure agreement? I haven't although I'm sure it happens if the shareholder has a large position in a company and is truly going to receive inside stuff. Consider this: the meeting I attended was over seven months ago. Don't you suppose that, in the passage of time, much of the "secret" stuff would now be public knowledge? And doesn't it seem strange to you that it isn't? I was told about the Jackson suit and other potential actions without signing so that's not the stuff that Larry, Larry's brother and Joe Stratter (remember him? And where is he now?) heard about. Even Elvis was mentioned in passing before I left the meeting. And there was historical discussion about the company, its principal players, isi, and others, including Taylor Kramer, plus some of the former inside folks who had moved on to other ventures at that time. I heard discussion about fractals, what could be done with minimal effort to the then-existing software, use of the fractal product for purposes that I won't mention, even though I didn't sign the nondisclosure agreement. So, you see, I didn't leave clueless about the company, although many on this board disagree with me on that point. But, of course, they weren't there, were they? :-) There are other things that I learned which will remain off this board.
