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sger...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Steven Gershenfeld) wrote:

>In article <3sppcn$6...@lynx.unm.edu>, Dan Ehrig <deh...@capella.unm.edu> wrote:
>>Aurora (aur...@worldaccess.nl) wrote:
>>
>>: That's just aprt of business...everybody steals what they can from the
>>: competition.. they ALL do that
>>
>>Are you defending this?  And no, they don't "all" do that.  Only MS.  In 
>>fact, MS is the only one accused of stealing code from another company in 

Other companies did it...it's just that MS is such a big (and rich)
target it's actually worth officially accusing.......

>>the last 10 years.  And the quicktime case is not the only one.
>>
>>So please, use your head before posting.
>>

just beside the point.....I didn't get this reply yet.......(was
included in another reply...lousy newsserver, I guess ;))

>>-Dan
>>
>>--
>>My inner child is a mean little fucker.
>>http://www.unm.edu/~dehrig/dan3.html

>Doublespace comes to mind as well, which is (was) Stacker Lite without
>Stac's permission.  It was also horrendously inferior in features and
>was prone to crashing hard disks.  The newer versions of it did
>fix some of the bugs though.

>I find it hard to believe any one would DEFEND a company of stealing
>code.  That's ludicrous.  

I'm not defending them.....just stating what it's at...


>Steven