Hammock quotable quotes: Lewis Pennock is quoted in today’s Nashville City Paper commenting on the Business Software Alliance targeting Nashville and a few other markets with a “grace period” for companies coming clean on illegal software they may have sitting around the office. BSA is running a heavy radio schedule with spots saying something like, “Any company with a disgruntled former employee should fear being turned in. And, oh by the way, here’s a phone number any disgruntled former employees out there can call.”

Quote:

“I think their radio campaign is a little below the belt, but perhaps they have come to realize that they have no choice but to use fear tactics to increase the level of compliance among businessesm,” said Lewis Pennock, technology strategist for Hammock Publishing.

Old historians never lie, they merely footnote away: Amid even more accusations he may have a pattern of pushing the envelop on borrowing from previously published work, Stephen Ambrose admits in today’s New York Times
that he power-lifts material from other authors (free registration required). He says he maybe borrowed a wee-too-much in
Wild Blue, but promises to do better next time. In his teaching days, would he have been so charitable with students?

Quote:

Mr. Ambrose said he and his son were hard at work on his next book. This time, “I am sure going to put quotes around anything that comes out of a secondary work, always,” he said.

Before it becomes a controversy, I’d like to admit that everything I have ever written I borrowed from someone else.