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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC 5.0 Bugs, Microsoft ``support''
Message-ID: <11470023@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 88 18:02:44 GMT
References: <248@pyuxf.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Re: Arrogant vendors

My earlier remark about the childishness of copyrighting bug reports to
make life hard for a vendor is still valid.

I fully subscribe to the idea that a user community should make its wishes
known to a vendor and recognize that choice of vendor may be limited.

What I wanted to point out is that the tactic of copyrighting bug reports
doesn't hurt the vendor, only the user community who will be deprived 
of an eventual fix.  Bear in mind that most copies (99.44%) of the 
product in question (MSC) will be repaired via "update" from the vendor and
not by readers of this news topic.

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