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From: eli@haddock.ISC.COM (Elias Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: competing
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Date: 23 May 88 14:22:09 GMT
References: <53780@sun.uucp> <2006@sugar.UUCP> <3527@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <26767@clyde.ATT.COM> <1988May22.024527.18057@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1988May22.024527.18057@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>PS- why is it that companies all seem to think that the best way to
>>make money is to sue the pants off their competitors instead of
>>produce a better/cheaper product?
>
>It's the American Way (release 2.0). :-(
>
>(Canada is no better, by the way, just a few years behind in the trend...)

More accurately, it's the outcome of decades of incomprehensible, arbitrary
and unenforceable business regulations that are stifling creativity and
long-range planning. As usual, the government blames the market for the
result.

Anyway, back to the discussions that belong in this group...

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