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From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Dosn't like bad recommendations (was Re: not: Where can I buy Telebit (or other modems) cheap?)
Message-ID: <38919@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 90 05:10:41 GMT
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In article <537@kos.rci.dk> fk@kos.rci.dk (Fleming Kraglund) writes:
>eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>
>>i find it ironic that a 3com employee would slam one company and
>>recommend another, as Norman does below.  i made a similar recommendation
>>regarding 3com ethernet cards and those of its competitors, and
>>was promptly threatened with legal action by one of 3com's whining
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>marketing twits who reads the net.  my recommendation may have been
>>a bit cruder than Norman's, and was less detailed.  oh well...
>
>Isn't that illegal.
>
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Whether it is illegal or not MAY not matter to the party bringing the suit.
They call them SLAP suits (which stand for something I recal) and the
intent is to intimidate the entity being sued (I AM NOT SAYING THAT THIS
IS WHAT 3COM WAS DOING, I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF THAT CASE).  I recently saw
an "article" on McNeil/Leher about a study showing that this type of case
is definetly on the rise. The reported study indicated that it is the hassle
and expense of going to court that is being used as a weapon, not the results
of the case.  Most such cases that DO go to court are won by the defendent
(the entity being sued), some have even won large countersuits showing that
their constitutional rights were violated but, most SLAP cases do NOT go to
trial (again from the M/L report).
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These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!