altai

An Altai executive, who was a CA alumnus, recruited a CA product manager to work on an Altai product that competed with a CA product.

Except for one that I knew nothing about (the name is Altai Himalaya, and I have absolutely no clue why this one is picking my attention, but it does).

It cost more than the annual budget of the Altai Republic.

An intriguing hypothesis suggests the existence of an advanced civilization 12,000 years ago, who potentially lived on a continent now submerged due to cataclysmic flooding (detailed in the Altai Flood theory on Wikipedia).

(This was also a major scope-of-copyright-protection case concerning the replacement code.) [1] [2] The dispute cost Altai a lot of money and, perhaps more importantly, time and reputation capital.

There is another one of these in one of the most remote regions of Russia - the Altai mountains - where the road to the place alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars (this time, simply taken from the federal budget), and a whole small town needed to be built to house the construction workers.

Loved "Altai" and "Q", the historical fiction they produced (under that pseudonym and "Wu Ming")!

Altai is pretty far from the north; it's interesting to see how this tradition spread through the region.

That border is either mountain ranges (Altai), or empty steppes (Zabaikalsk), or boreal forests (Amur and Vladivostok).

Altai had to rip out and replace the code and pay $364,000 in damages for infringement.