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Sorry, I guess I missed that bit of your followup posting.  And "contract" is,
admittedly, not the right word.

There are, however, still some people that don't get my point:

aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us wrote:
: go that far.  Don't the guys at IBM KNOW how IMPORTANT invidual
: software developers are??  Out of Windows software over HALF was
: made by startups of less than 5 persons. If OS/2 is ever to become
: anything more than a shadow of Windows,  it better stack every card
: it can find in its favor.  Right now IBM just sent a clear message
: to every code cruncher on this planet:  "Don't trust us."
: 
: It can be argued that this whole affair is the result of an individual
: at IBM.  However,  I would like to point out that no matter what the
: company,  the employer is, if not legally,  then morally responsible
: for promises made by employees.  Besides,  none of the bad-IBM-PR
: hunting journalists I talked to gave the notion of "just an
: employees fault" more than a split-second of their time.  When will
: IBM learn:  if you are big, everyone will be looking for reasons to
: pick on you.  Of course this does give IBM an excellent opportunity
: to fix the damage,  if it can do so quickly enough. (any VP's reading
: this looking for brownie points??).

Exactly what do you expect IBM to do?  As I see it, there are two ways that
IBM could have handled this differently:

1)  They could have been prescient and known that this guy was going to give
    out wrong information before he did.
2)  They could have broken copyright law and given out the source code and been
    sued by Microsoft.

If you can manage to make either of these options reasonable alternatives, then
I'll start listening.
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