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Article #9812Re: Data-PCS (Apple) Petition - Please Comment!
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 14:37
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 14:37
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This seems rather silly. Why did you not just contact the author directly and ask him to clarify his relationship with the department? A simple disclaimer (which he would undoubtedly have agreed to) would have prevented the whole sorry affair. Personally, I find it hard to take the petition seriously. It seems to me to be more business-politics BS rather than anything of technical interest. More time and resource wasted in legislation and litigation instead of engineering and innovation. Sigh. Once upon a time there was this great little computer company... -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.misc Subject: Re: Data-PCS (Apple) Petition - Please Comment! Message-ID: <EV9BLO7@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 13 May 91 14:37:55 GMT References: <52469@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May9.214446.818@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> <52691@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: usa Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14