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From: rlb@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PK361.EXE
Message-ID: <6084@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 12 Aug 88 02:09:52 GMT
References:  <11792@steinmetz.ge.com> <4936@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <4936@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Craig Browning) writes:
>>| competition.
>
>>  I don't think that anyone want to switch until/unless the UNIX source
>>is available for the new compressor.
>
>You're in the minority, as I will point out again.
>Most of us use clones instead of IBM's that are compatible and much more
>of a copy than Katz, but how many of us want to pay the extra to not infringe
>IBM's copyright?
>

I agree.  Suppose that SEAs attitude had been prevalent at the turn
of the century?  Can you imagine the early automobile manufacturers
suing each other because their competitors product also happened to
have 4 wheels, an engine, and a steering wheel?  What would your
car look like today?  Each brand would be so different that a
separate class of drivers license would be required for each brand!
 
I guess that the developers of the UNIX ARC utility had better pack
their bags and go into hiding.  They will probably be next on SEAs
"hit list".  

Oops! I should have said ARC (tm)*.  I don't want to get slapped with
a law suit either!

		* ARC is a trademark of SEA