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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:22640 comp.unix.bsd:14684 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: APC refuses to give out info without NDA Message-ID: <jmonroyCv0uuA.2K0@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <32o173$icu@thor.tjhsst.edu> <jmonroyCuwv3J.HpB@netcom.com> <339f26$1l6@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 04:22:57 GMT Lines: 37 Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: : In article <jmonroyCuwv3J.HpB@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: : [ ... Company with non-disclosure policy is railed against ... ] : ] Might I recommend to Mr. Metz (and any others) : ] that this type of critisium is uncalled for. : ] : ] True a company may want to be less that freindly : ] about the way in which the deal with the marketing/sales : ] policy of their products, but this is no reason : ] to even suggest a "bias" of any sort. : "Tit for tat, Dr. Lecter, tit for tat" -- Clarise Starling : _Thomas Harris, Silence of the Lambs_ : :: [deleted stuff] :: : : This is, in the small scale, unwise, and in the large scale, nothing : less than blatant stupidity. : I will agree with Terry on this issue. : If you disagree with this view, then you must believe that stupidity : should have the minimum penalty possible. Of course, this means that : you believe people should post about products so that uninformed : consumers are protected from the stupidity of buying something they : can't use, right? After all, the greatest stupidity for the greatest : number... : I'm not sure what you meant, so I won't quibble. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________