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- From: srrodewa@sprint.uccs.edu (Shelly R. Rodewald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Ethics of joining CompuServe to DL B&P
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 02:35:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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- Joseph Crowe (jcrowe) wrote:
- : singh@wwa.com (singh) wrote:
- : >Hmm I never thought about that...guess that wouldn't be unethical since
- : >compuserve *gives* you ten hours free...just out of curiosity is there an
- : >ascii manual that comes with it? Also any other input on whether or not
- : >using free hours to dl would be ethical, albeit legal?
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-
- How about the ethics of Microsloth buying Blue Ribbon to kill B&P Pro?
- Don't tell me you think they bought them to get the "software technology",
- Microsoft just steals what it wants, sells it under its own name, and then
- dares you to take them to court. (That's why DOS 6.22 and the change from
- DoubleSpace to DriveSpace -- the stole DoubleSpace from Stacker (and screwed
- it up to boot.)) Microsloth just wanted to kill B&P for the Amiga because it
- showed them up, and was small and cheap. Kind of like swatting a fly.
- Great, now we can get B&P for free -- did it ever occur to you that the
- reason they are giving it away is because they don't want to support it?
- Now there will never be another upgrade, another bugfix, or even any simple
- support. Yeah, Microsloth-- screw the Amiga users and get a few to even
- cheer your "Generosity".
-
-
- --Shelly
-