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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 12:50 pm

Win:  Beat iRobot out of a $286 million US Army defense contract for three thousand ground robots.

Lose:  Steal your robot technology from your former employer iRobot, build almost identical robots, get caught, get sued, try to erase as much of the evidence as you can in violation of a court order to preserve everything, get served with an injunction, lose the contract, "you die, she dies, everybody dies..."¹

just goes to show, you don't have to be a genius to commit blatant intellectual property theft.  In fact, it looks like being dumb as a rock sort of helps.

[1]  Reference!  Be specific, please.  No fair Googling.  :)

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 05:56 am (UTC)
I'll take it if it's up for grabs -- a really lovely city.
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 12:07 pm (UTC)
Oh, wait, we're talking about the city? ;)