On 12 May 2000, at 9:44, Peter C.S. Adams wrote:

>I'm not saying all these decisions were wrong, but they were arbitrary and
>they do have some strange consequences.

You may want to check the logs on that.  I think I recall considerable
discussion here by LSoft on some specific corporate specifications they
had to meet to satisfy various legal issues.  "Arbitrary" doesn't strike
me as a fair characterization.
                                   -Kary