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From: che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Your (preferred) software rights...
Message-ID: <297@ptsfb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 11:29:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 11:29:57 1986
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Reply-To: che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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In article <588@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
>>[...]
>>DO give business to companies that seem to be responsive to user needs,[...]
>>Microsoft (Wordstar, Wordstar 2000) which dropped copy protection, etc.
>      ^^^^
> MicroPro??
>
>I would also avoid products by companies that do silly things like placing
>messages that say "Now trashing your disk" in them (whether they really are
>trashing it or not).

I slapped myself and I'm awake now! Yes, it is MicroPro..  My mentioning 
Microsoft in the context of responsive companies in light of the above 
is ironic.  (Yes, I do have a mind like a sieve...)
-- 
Mitch Che
Pacific Bell
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