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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Microport - Man or Myth?
Message-ID: <1325@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 20:20:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: rtech.1325
Posted: Mon Oct 19 20:20:37 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 23:19:24 EDT
References: <163@uport.UUCP> <2964@phri.UUCP>
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Reply-To: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA
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Summary: With the bashing they got, why not let them defend themselves?
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In article <2964@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>In article <163@uport.UUCP> chuck@uport.UUCP (Chuck Hickey) writes:
>>                            People's UNIX -
>>                          Now More Than Ever
>
>	Isn't this type of material better suited to the corporate
>background sheet that goes out in the promo folder along with the 4-color
>glossy literature?  Since it seems that you are selling a new product
>(namely new and improved corporate management), maybe I could see myself
>stretching the limits of my imagination and just barely approving of this
>on comp.newprod.  But on unix-wizards?  Give me a break!

Microport has been blasted heavily in many newsgroups over the last 6
months or so.  It seems fair to me for the president of the company  to
post a response indicating what they are doing about those gripes.

I don't remember the last time Ken Olsen or Andy Bechtolsheim defended
their companies support policies on the net.

-dB
Cogito ergo zoom...
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