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Subject:RE: Using Fictional Companies and Case Studies From:"Wade Courtney" <courtney -at- hsq -dot- com> To:"'Darren Barefoot'" <darren -at- capulet -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:53:23 -0800
How about this...
The events depicted in this case study are fictitious. Any similarity to
any person living or dead is merely coincidental.
Wade
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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-101782 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com] On Behalf Of Darren
Barefoot
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:23 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Using Fictional Companies and Case Studies
Hi,
I'm writing a whitepaper for a client, and including a fictional case
study. Basically, it describes the problem this invented company (we'll
call it 'Acme') has, and how my client's product solves that problem.
We want to indicate that this is a fictional company, but I'm unsure of
the wording. This is what I currently have, which is pretty lame:
