On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:11 AM Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/10/20 10:50 PM, Howard Gibson wrote: > > [snip] > >> The NCIX one is not surprising because the bankruptcy lawyers have no > >> idea of what they have and don't have any responsibility to guard public > >> privacy. > > Alvin, > > > > I recall hearing on the news about some guy who bought an old computer > > with the UNIX source code on it. That must have been the incident. > > > > I posted that story about NCIX on an engineering forum, and we > > discussed the ethics of it. To hell with lawyers. You are the landlord, > > and you have not been paid rent, and you have padlocked the place. > > Somebody offers you $10K for the servers. You are a low tech person. You > > have a mortgage. What do you do? Do you have any obligations to honour > > NDAs? Do you have any clue of how to search hard drives for sensitive > > information? Is it ethical for you to do so? > > > Its not quite that simple. > I understand the desire to want to do something to recoup your losses > but selling the assets of someone else is not the answer. > > So you are the Landlord and you have not been paid and have the place > padlocked and someone offers you $10K for the computers and equipment in > that doctors office??? > You may be a low tech person with a mortgage but you will likely know > that that will end badly. > > Or its a garage rental. Do you sell the guys Ferrari for the back rent? > Now that would be tempting but likely as not that would also end badly. > > I have been on the side of being the aggrieved person who is owed cash > and I do know the feeling of anger and wanting to strike out but after > hours on the phone with a lawyer friend I was told I needed to learn to > live with it or find a new way to make a livelihood. >
Hmmmmmmm - - - - - even in 'law' there is a period of time where if an item has not been claimed nor space rent hasn't been paid the person owed the funds is 'allowed' to sell the items. Regards --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
