Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!emory!stiatl!meo
From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: PDWL - dead or what?
Keywords: locked in a ward for bulemics
Message-ID: <4041@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 21:24:07 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., a Dun & Bradstreet Company
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This is an apology (of sorts) regarding the PDWL (Public Domain Widget
Library) state.

Sales Technologies was acquired earlier this year by Dun & Bradstreet.
I am not sure of the details, but somewhere between the lawyers for
ST and those for Dun & Bradstreet, major trade secret/copyright fear
has set in. Until we can resolve this, we are not permitted to make
any of our code public. Naturally, this is a very distressing situation
for me.

Currently, there is only 1 entry in any of the libraries that is not from
Sales Technologies. While I have left our widgets in the directory, I really
have no idea how long it will be before we may ship them.

I have known of this for a couple of months; I have been hoping it would
be quickly resolved, but it has not. In the meantime, while much interest
has been expressed in the library, only 1 item has come in to be tested or put
in the library. The PDWL will not work without your input!

Meanwhile, a bug in the shell scripts has caused at least 6 or 7 people
not to receive the responses I sent out, while trashing the copies I keep
of outgoing mail, so I'm not sure who you were. If you have requested
something, please re-request it.

I apologize for the fact that I have not brought this up quicker; as I said,
I kept hoping it would be resolved quicker. We are pushing as hard and fast
as we can. In the meantime, I am going to work on a couple of widgets on my
own time, which I will publish to the net and through the PDWL.

Finally, if you are in a similar situation, let me know through email;
perhaps we can work together on this.

-Miles O'Neal
(gatech!stiatl!meo)