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In article <1993Jan7.220154.446@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
> In article <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
>>>I joined the Developers Assistance Program and through that arm
>>>obtained a verbal assurance that there would be "no problem" obtaining
>>>said source code since there was nothing proprietary.  Based on this
>>>assurance and the license I had negotiated for using the interpreter I
>>>quit my day job to live off my savings and develop this product which I
>>>was going to call SimpleScript.
>>
>>Not to question your judgement in this case, but do you think that it was
>>really a wise move to do what you did on the basis of a verbal promise,
>>with nothing backing it up in writing?
> 
> 
> I think you misunderstand Bob's problem.  All he wanted was a sample printer
> driver.  IBM should have had this available well before OS/2 2.0 GA shipped.
> The point is that they didn't, and they still don't.
> I would agree with you comment if Bob had wanted something unusual from
> IBM, but this is standard stuff.
> 
> Brian
> -- 
> C. Brian Sturgill                          NeXTStep 486 is for _YOU_!!!!
> University of Utah                    Microsoft needs competition, but I want
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	Not to disagree with you (because I don't fully disagree in this
case) but anytime one risks such a large amount of financial resources,
one should try to get everything in writing.  If it were a little thing,
like under $1000, then I wouldn't push for anything in writing, but
$100,000?  That's our company's gross income for over a month!  I'd have
to get everything in writing before I comitted that much to a project.
	But no doubt still, IBM was scummy about the entire situation.
Just to take a parting shot at Microsoft, the difference between IBM
adn Microsoft is that when IBM is scummy, it's usually because of
incompetence.  When MS is scummy, it's usually to be cutthroat.

							-Brad