Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Exec-PC BBS to ban ARC files Message-ID: <6382@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 10 Sep 88 23:43:20 GMT References: <6324@dasys1.UUCP> <374@mrsvr.UUCP> Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Independent Users Guild Lines: 30 In article <374@mrsvr.UUCP> roth@mrsvr.UUCP (Dean Roth) writes: >In article <6324@dasys1.UUCP>, tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: >> ... The "outraged" >> folks flaming here and elsewhere have not seen the facts of the case; >> the court HAS and the lawyers have. >The courts have not decided anything. The parties made an agreement >between themselves. No court has passed any judgement at this time >on the situation. The complaints and agreements are publicly >available at the Milwaukee Fed. court, and they have been >posted to several BBSes and USENET. When all else absolutely fails, Dean Roth should consider reading the article. I did not claim the court had decided anything; I claimed it, and the agreeing parties, had seen the facts, and that griping users had not. The statement stands. Certain court documents have been posted to Usenet, but the reasons underlying SEA's decision to take PK to court have not, and (I imagine) will not. Usenet members tend to be technically sophisticated as well as technically responsible in the support (if not maturity) sense. Any departmental manager in an organization under my control who chose one software package over another on the basis of how he/she felt about some court case the authors had started, would lose that responsibility darn fast. Readers here ought to hold themselves to a similar standard. I can forgive Bob Blacher who lives across town from PK and probably goes to Brewer games with him :-), but hysteria in the rest of the PC user community is just embarrassing. -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: t.neff (no kidding)