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From: cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IBM pollution
Keywords: IBM policy NeXT
Message-ID: <3456@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 18:17:07 GMT
References: <7764@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi)
Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <7764@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> g2k@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
		(Frederic Giacometti) flames:
>
>   Stop IBM pollution... [and a great deal of flaming omitted]

I have no idea which workstation offers better value for money,
though I expect that rational, factual postings to this forum
will help make that clear.  But the following statement by M. Giacometti
is simply a lie:

>Let's make clear than IBM info on their
>product should not be relied on (the only info from IBM is on their product:
>every IBM employee has signed an agreement where it is specified that non IBM
>products should never be specified...

There is no such agreement.  No IBM employee anywhere in the world was
ever told any such thing.  Such a requirement would be illegal in the
US, and would be profoundly contrary to IBM's corporate policy of "respect
for the individual" wherever IBM does business.  No such
censorship was applied during the years I was employed by IBM in the US
and in Europe, and I know from talking to current IBM employees
that no such policy has been introduced in the decade since I left.

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