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Subject: Re: What happened to TASC?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:34:02 10/27/01

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On October 27, 2001 at 13:16:14, O. Veli wrote:

>They had very nice products such as R30, TascBase, Chessica and Tasc CD a few
>years back. But they were suddenly out of business. I heard about a court ruling
>penalizing them for 500,000 USD. If that is the case what was the court about?
>Thanks.

From what I recall (which may involve any amount of accuracy -- including none
at all), it had to do with the TASC SmartBoard. Supposedly, TASC either stole
the technology or reverse-engineered it or something, from some other company.

Once again, any amount of the above may or may not be true. It's just what I
heard....

jm



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