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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 and Postscript ANSWER (from the NET of course)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.205110.25410@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:51:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.185215.9587@analsyn.gts.org>, anton@analsyn.gts.org (Anton J Aylward) writes:
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- | Abuse, core of which was "how can you possibly know that - you don't
- | have acces to our sources!". Tell me guys, Middleton's PD version of
- | withstanding, how many ways are there to implement 'file'?
-
- yes, I've seen that. I once tried to tell a company what was wrong
- with a drive and how to fix it. Instead of taking the info they
- threatened to sue me because I had disassembled their code. I have also
- complained that things didn't work and had companies list the bugs as
- design decisions rather than fix them. What does it say about a company
- who would include a note like "Does not work on filenames which contain
- blanks."
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-