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From: dra@neuro.usc.edu (Diane Annala)
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Subject: Re: Please boycott Xircom
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Date: 8 Oct 90 07:04:48 GMT
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In article <NELSON.90Sep28233146@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:
#
#Prudent or not, you agreed to do so, yet you have not.  That makes you
#liars.  I suggest to dear gentle readers that they keep that in mind.
#
#   Xircom will be
#   discontinuing the shipment of the Packet Driver based
#   on the Clarkson Packet driver and will be replacing it
#   with a fully compliant Packet Driver developed
#   independently.
#
#You can bet your bippy I'm going to go over your "independently developed"
#packet driver with a fine-toothed comb.

Of course, Xircom could include a provision in their copyright notice
forbidding nelson@image.clarkson.edu from disassembling, decompiling,
or otherwise going over the new packet driver with a fine toothed comb.