Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasys1!tneff From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Status report on PKWare Message-ID: <6978@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 16 Oct 88 22:07:35 GMT References: Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Independent Users Guild Lines: 27 In article mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes: > [cheery assurances deleted] > ... There have been a number of messages in >regard to Phil's support (or alleged lack of) for the UN*X environment >re: his new R-kiver, but I had a chance to talk to him about this ... ^^^^^^^ > ... Phil is **very** hesitant (make that >adverse) to releasing his source code for the new R-kiver ... ^^^^^^^ Oh deary deary me. ;-) D'ya suppose it was something about the carpeting or the benches in that courtroom? A special ambience to the diner around the corner? Is PK under some strange *compulsion* to stay in litigation for the rest of the decade, or is Elvis at work somewhere behind the scenes? Inquiring minds want to know! Well at any rate we have SOME concrete results from the Grand Project -- a cute new name guaranteed to get them back into hot water. It doesn't matter if Joe X used the word first in 1961, that ain't the way settlements work. I would have thought that the prudent course at this point would be to pick a name about as close to ARC as "onion." -- 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)