OT: SCO Forum

[Keith' Weatherhead]

Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006, Mike Schwartz (PC Support) wrote:
> 
>>>Other than that, nobody I talk to seems to authoritatively know who owns
>>>the rights to the old Softa one at this time.  Considered contacting
>>>FourGen and seeing if they can help with a native version?  It's seeming
>>>like your best bet.
>>>
>>>mark->
>>
>>    Try to contact Keith Hanson in Seattle.  Circa 1999, Keith claimed he
>>was the author of some of the Menu* products and that he had the "C" source
>>code, all the internal development documentation, etcetera and was willing
>>to sell it for $10,000.00.  (I don't recall if we discussed MenuMaster,
>>MenuEze, MenuMaestro, or any of the other variants.  I would like to know
>>the exact history, but I believe that they all had different authors.)
>>
>>    As I recall, Keith said Softa/Fourgen company (per se) didn't write the
>>Menu* line of products themselves, although Keith, Gordon and all of these
>>guys were all loosely tied together somehow.
>>
>>    I would like to see somebody (like Gordon) post a history exactly how
>>Softa was developed and who was involved, starting from the days when these
>>guys worked at Radio Shack Stores and/or knew each other from the Seattle
>>Computer Club(s).  I've also heard several rumors about how Softa became
>>FourGen and how they migrated away from filePro.
> 
> 
> Gordon was probably the least technical of the three founders, Gary
> Galliardi, Gordon (last name forgotten), and Lauren West.  Lauren was the
> tech guy.  Gordon was manager of a very large Radio Shack Computer Center
> (RSCC) in the University district of Seattle (Scarecrow Video is now in
> their old building).  The Seattle Unix Group's meetings were held in this
> RSCC for a while while Gordon was still manager.

Gordon's last name was Schaefer (might have the spelling incorrect).
We have one of the first 100 contracts with his signature on it, 
that we can modify, sell, or "use in any manner we wish".  They made 
changes to the later contracts including the amount they charged. 
We got it for a "steal" compared to the later buyers.

Regards,
Keith
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