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Re: TEXT - APPLE-MICROSOFT Agreement

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From: Jeffrey A. Sullivan
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1988 00:11
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In article <18769@think.UUCP>, barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> In article <32300009@ntvax> greg@ntvax.UUCP writes:
> >  7. General Provisions.
> >  A. Confidentiality. The parties shall keep the terms and conditions of
> >this Agreement in strict confidence, ...
> 
> It appears that they didn't do a very good job of maintaining the
> confidentiality of this agreement, if it was allowed to be posted to
> the net.
This agreement was allowewd (by both parties, I guess) to be released to the
publich sometime last wekk, as reported in MacWeek, among others.

The text actually isinteresting from a number of viewpoints, but I was
most amused by the clause requiring MS to update word.

I didn't know that such agreements were made.  Hmm...


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Jeffrey Sullivan			  | University of Pittsburgh
jas@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu		  | Intelligent Systems Studies Program
jasper@PittVMS.BITNET, jasst3@cisunx.UUCP | Graduate Student
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From: jas@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jeffrey A. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: TEXT - APPLE-MICROSOFT Agreement
Message-ID: <1112@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 88 00:11:33 GMT
References: <32300009@ntvax> <18769@think.UUCP>
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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Summary: It was released to the public last week.