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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Exec-PC BBS to ban ARC files
Message-ID: <1053@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 02:07:04 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12428739477.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <6324@dasys1.UUCP> <374@mrsvr.UUCP> <6382@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <6382@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
<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.

I'm not likely to have to decide on an archiving program for the company
I work for. But if it did come up, I'd at least point out what SEA seems
to be doing. (hint does "look and feel" ring a bell?)

I'm against what they are doing for a quite non-hysterical reason. The
idea of claiming "ARC" as a trademark goes beyond ludicrous. I'm sorry,
but I have no desire to that triies to get away with something like that.

To be only slightly silly, what if Microsoft had tried this with COM,
EXE, and BAT? I fail to see how SEA's actions in the *latest* part of this
battle diiffer from the Apple vs HP & Microsoft suit, or the Lotus 
"look & feel" suits. Except perhaps that it is even dumber...
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."