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From: jamesd@qiclab.UUCP (James Deibele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: PK vs ARC - Thom Henderson Speaks
Message-ID: <1683@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 07:07:28 GMT
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In article <6458@dasys1.UUCP> tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) writes:
>In the process of trying to sort out the SEA vs. PK situation,
>Thom Henderson posted this statement on Magpie HQ (212) 420-0527.
[...]

There is an active "boycott SEA" movement both on usenet and FidoNet ,
which undoubtedly cost SEA money and will cost them more in the future.
SEA spent $40,000 in legal costs laying the groundwork to take PKware to
court, money which they might have lost.  SEA offered to license PKware for
"non-commercial" (i.e. shareware), but PKware turned it down.  If you were
being called an asshole across the world, wouldn't you feel spite towards
the people that lead to that?  Particularly if you were right?
 
The complete text of the communication between PKware and SEA that was filed
in the appropriate court was typed in by someone who favored PKware.  After
reading the letters between attorneys, I favor SEA.  And that, boys and girls,
is why we have courts.  It's interesting to me that PKware was able to cough
up $62,500 ($40,000 in legal fees, $22,500 in damages) to pay to SEA to settle
the case out of court.  The text is available upon request, if there's enough
interest, I'll post (it probably runs 20K or more).

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