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From: aiv@euraiv1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Request For Comments-- Should IBM be on the net?
Message-ID: <584@euraiv1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 07:46:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 07:46:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 16:29:28 EDT
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Organization: Erasmus University EF/AIV,Rotterdam,Netherlands
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in article <946@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) says:
> Keywords:
> 
> In article <1903@umn-cs.UUCP> haque@umn-cs.UUCP (Samudra E. Haque) writes:
> [proposal to invite IBM to be on Usenet]
> 
> I think we should get PC's Limited on the net first.   Also Borland.
> 
> Not much interest here in hearing why IBM stuff costs twice as much
> as everybody else's.

To feed the discussion:
1.	although IBM may be expensive, they're still more or less an
	"industry-leader". Especially with OS/2 coming up it may be
	interesting to have some knowledgable first-hand feedback.
2.	it might be a nice thing to have a "code-of-conduct" for commercial
	participants on the net; that way we'll all know what we're up to.
	This code might for example forbid over-advertising of a company's 
	own products, over-critizing other companies' products etc.
	Any company that is willing to confirm to the code should be allowed
	the net if a sufficient number of users agrees; now, define 
	"sufficient".... (fe. #pro > 10*contra ?)
3.	IF we invite Borland, we should force them to make patches available
	on a server that can be accessed by anyone on USEnet, not just by
	those on ARPAnet or Compuserve. [yes I use Turbo C ;-)]

Eelco van Asperen.

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