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From: Jim Pilcher <JPilcher@msmail.radisys.com>
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Subject: RE: What the Board could and couldn't do
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 09:01:00 PST
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Just wanted to mention in passing that the board is behaving like anyone who 
discovers that several thousand people want to ruin their day, all at the 
same time--which is to say, they are in something of a dither.  Three have 
panicked and resigned; the rest are obviously open to anything that will get 
the 'supportership' off their backs.  They have been subjected to a form of 
stress that will break most people. There actions are not going to be 
deliberate and well thought out until the stress is off of them for a while.