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Re: Microsoft Uses NDAs To Cripple Competitors (was: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: David Damerell
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
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Shell <sheldon+usenet@yuck.net> wrote:
> Oh good god!  Why do people keep listening to Rex Ballard?
>I guess it's the fascinating thing about the Internet, how some old crack
>pot can buy a $500 computer and then proclaim himself as an expert by
>writing a lot of random words.

If he's Jon Katz, he even gets a movie license out of it.

[To be fair, I did find an old article by Katz in which he was not full of
shit; it could, however, be summarised as 'newspapers are not liek the
Web']
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From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Uses NDAs To Cripple Competitors (was: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/05
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