IP: some fun from the sjmn OOPS: The Hewlett-Packard slugfest is getting sloppy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

OOPS: The Hewlett-Packard slugfest is getting sloppy. HP this week filed 
its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and slipped 
in what at first looked like a slam on foes of the company's proposed 
merger with Compaq Computer.

The filing misspelled the names of several relatives of HP's founders who 
are trying to block the deal. It renamed the David & Lucile Packard 
Foundation ``the David & Lucite Packard Foundation, dubbed Mary Hewlett 
Jaffe ``Mary Hewlett Gaffe'' and called Eleanor Hewlett Gimon ``Eleanor 
Hewlett Limon,'' which means ``lemon'' en Español.

An HP spokeswoman told the Associated Press that a spellcheck program, not 
a Freudian slip, was to blame. A revised filing was posted Wednesday.

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