It’s heart-warming enough to be a Christmas tale:

Greg and I still had to sneak into the building. The people in charge of the PowerPC project, upon which [Apple’s] future depended, couldn’t get us badges without a purchase order. They couldn’t get a purchase order without a signed contract. They couldn’t get a contract without approval from Legal, and if Legal heard the truth, we’d be escorted out of the building.

Ron Avitzur tells the Graphing Calculator Story: engineers conspire to evade the lawyers and suits and create killer app software (via McIrvin); related Slashdot thread.

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