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From: landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Market share for DOS database products
Message-ID: <1991May6.234504.24498@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 23:45:04 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.230012.12838@dbase.A-T.COM> <1991Apr28.041636.7696@welch.jhu.edu> <1991Apr30.224901.18001@dbase.a-t.com>
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In article <1991Apr30.224901.18001@dbase.a-t.com> awd@dbase.a-t.com (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>
>I think that answering technical questions about dBASE is a good thing,
>and that's why I'm here.  

Agreed.  Please continue to do so.

>Answering business questions such as market
>share is not as valuable to netland, but it's an interesting subject
>to me.  

OK, in moderation.

>Slamming competitors or spreading "dBASE related propaganda"
>is not why I'm here, and I'd be the first to criticize someone for
>doing it.  However, I find myself fruitlessly defending against some
>fairly emotional attacks that are almost as inappropriate as propaganda
>from the competitors in question.
>
>/alastair/


IMHO, Alastair, you've been doing more of the third item than the other
two lately, and the least of the first.  Yes, A-T has been attacked here 
lately, but in defending those attacks, you can still be guilty of 
"propaganda", perhaps without meaning to.  Sometimes tone makes all 
the difference.

HEY EVERYBODY, lets keep the discussion level headed, clean, honest, 
and knowledgeable.  (But let's keep up the dBase language discussions!)

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