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From: rod@cpocd2.UUCP (Rod Rebello)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PK361.EXE
Message-ID: <1250@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 88 13:38:21 GMT
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Reply-To: rod@cpocd2.UUCP (Rod Rebello)
Organization: Intel Corp., ASIC Operation, Chandler, AZ
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In article  wacey@paul.rutgers.edu ( ) writes:
>
>I wonder how many people who are screaming that PKARC got raked
>actual write commercial software. If you spent one or two years
>on R+D, building a cutomer base and support only to have someone
>duplicate your product how would you feel. If the author of PKARC
>just wanted a faster ARC he should have talked to SEA about having
>them release it.
>It is alot easier to duplicate a program than to think it up in
>the first place.

You've got to be kidding!  This is a fact of business.  If someone 
markets a good product, there will always be someone else who will try
to get a share of that market.  I admit that if I were the originator
of the product, I would not like it, but that's life.  As long as the
competition did not get their imitation product by stealing my code they
have every right to compete against me with their own version.  Let the
market place decide which is better!