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From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Why Does FoxBase Act Like a Virus? (WRONG!!!)
Message-ID: <289@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 89 20:17:13 GMT
References: <1989Oct26.010852.11879@xenitec.on.ca>
Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif.
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In article <1989Oct26.010852.11879@xenitec.on.ca>, timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes:
> First off I takes strong exception to relating Foxbase/+
> to ANYTHING other than 
> the high-quality dbaseIII+ compatable rdms it is. (And especially to viri of 
> any sort!!)
>
> ...[stuff deleted]...
> 
> In closing, before you condem a product (particularly one that's had so
> many glowing reports from almost unbiased sources :-) ) make SURE of your
> claims!!  (You'll get less egg-foo-young on your face that way! :-) )
> 

I wish people would "takes strong exception" when others "condem" dBASE IV.
After all, nothing is more "dbase" "compatable" than we are.

The pervasiveness of the prevailing opinions about Fox and A-T have made
me more aware of pernicious attitudes in general.  I'm re-thinking whether
Exxon was wrong to leave Alaska, or whether Jim Bakker really deserves
45 years.  I know "everybody knows" these things are true, but what are
the facts?  Who cares?

Spare me the "glowing reports from almost unbiased sources," please.  I'll
have the young egg-foo to go.

/alastair/

/alastair/