The Future End of Classic Computing - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Apr 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com] 
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  At NCC (which was once the biggest show in the US,
soon 
 thereafter passed
 by by Comdex), booth staff at several manufacturers were incapable of
 imagining ANY possible use of disk format conversion other 
 than the making
 of unauthorized copies of their proprietary software.  In fact, 
Yes, folks, people really are That Stupid.  I wouldn't have suggested
this if I didn't think it was a possibility, but I find it incredibly
funny that it's actually been tried already. :)

...
  representatives of TWO companies threatened to sue me
if I 
 included their
 disk formats! 
...
  Although I was out of town, and staying in a hotel
room, I 
 stayed up late
 that night to make sure that theirs were the very next formats that I
 added. 
You did exactly what I would have done in that situation, perhaps
with a prominent note in the manual as to why.

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  But neither company kept their promise of providing me
with 
 massive free
 publicity. 
My only worry is that these days, they might actually go through
with it.

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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