Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!osu-cis!bcd-dyn!sas
From: sas@bcd-dyn.UUCP (432 2370.00)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
Summary: SEA vs PKARC
Message-ID: <1024@bcd-dyn.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 12:22:27 GMT
References: <5763@megaron.arizona.edu>
Organization: Battelle Columbus Division, Columbus, OH
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In article <5763@megaron.arizona.edu>, gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
> 
> Are you sure about this?  I would hate to see SEA accused of something
> so slimey and repugnant if it weren't true.  I hesitate to believe
> that SEA would stoop to such an appallingly foul level as to sue
> someone for putting out a superior product to compete with them.  Did
> they expect their archiving format to become a defacto standard that
> only they could supply the program for?  Surely they know that if they
> won such a suit, users would simply desert the arc format for a freer
> one.  So as well as being loathsome and unethical, the lawsuit would
> be stupid.
> 

Actually, I believe that SEA's principals are serious about this.  Having met
Thom Henderson, I can say that my opinion of him is that this kind of action 
is right up his alley.  It doesn't surprise me in the least, since he seems
to think that ARC is unique, and that everyone else who clones ARC is just
ripping him off, despite any added performance or new features they may have
added to his implementation.  







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