Please assume a time gap of two weeks to one month from the previous article mal, a hardware specification

Well it is true.
The collapse was inevitable.
Over the past two weeks it was looming over us.

Never would we compromise to satisfy the 18% annual bonus and dearness allowance demanded by them. And that too at a situation where the firm is facing a loss!!. For the past two weeks I had been gheraoed twice and branded a bloated greedy capitalist software multinational with two horns, by the programmers' union. I'll never forget the trauma. "mal njanngaLkk~ pullin~ thullyam", said one of their slogans, "Koshy! vaSi vEnda!", said one of their banners. Chchah! If this is the way they treat free enterprise, then we can expect very little in future.

It is well evident that the recent agitation by programmers is in retaliation to the pattikkattil-incident. We had fired one of our programmers T. J. Pattikkattil. And the programmers union demanded that he be taken back. I strongly stood by that hire and fire is mal-'s policy and that a job at mal should not be considered a sinecure. What is this?- a cucumber town? Who am I --the king of Spades? Eh! mal++, the object oriented extension to mal has not been completed and it seems that we can forget about it. An unfinished program is far worse than an unfinished symphony.

Here is a plot of the market share and profit for the past 6 months.

My heart ached when we took down the board with its bronze plated inscription "the mal corporation", from our office portico. As I looked upon the furniture stacked at one corner for loading into the truck, I fondly remembered the table on which I had spilled coffee one night, while putting up an all-nighter. As I returned they key for our office at the street-Y, to the appartment owner, I remembered the song "vAdakaveedozhinju". Now the whole place evoked the conscpicious emptiness of a house where a wedding has just been over and all the guests gone.

Well, our ambitions were tall. Our vision was that- a high end work station in every home, with an hdtv monitor, with a connection to the internet. janthA would interact with the computer in spoken malayALam. They would play with each other simulation games like kaLLanum pOleesum, over the internet. They would watch the pRadESika vARtthakaL, on the same monitor. And semi-inteligent mal robotic-agents would be running around doing all sorts of odd jobs like flushing your toilet, plucking the coconuts, scratching your back, to name a few.

I have a plan.
From the money I get by selling the things I have, I plan to set up a coconut business.
After making some money from that business, I would open up a hardware store.
If I make a profit on that hardware store business, I would go into software consulting.
If I succeed there I would recover my loss-and rebuild my little empire.
And restart the mal corporation. This time I would set it up in Kotthalagundi in A.P. (Atleast I expect to see some sensible people there.)

    	    	    	-Koshy George
    	    	       (for the mal corporation)

mal is the trade mark of the mal corporation .