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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
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- From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
- Subject: Re: What's happening to ISC UNIX?
- Message-ID: <Bz6844.Ixx@maxed.amg.com>
- Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee NJ
- References: <1992Dec7.190738.15486@rwwa.COM> <ByyLx7.1KJ@maxed.amg.com> <1992Dec12.001751.16715@pegasus.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:02:27 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In article <1992Dec12.001751.16715@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
- >>>| You know, there were no commercial releases of the ISC
- >>>| V4 product, and although Kodak/Interactive promised there would be, but
- >>>| no one who bought ISC V4 was told they were getting anything other
- >>>| than a pre-release product.
- >>>
- >>>This is baloney. There is nothing in the ISC V4 package that stated that
- >>
- >>It's not baloney. Every authorized vendor, and ISC themselves, told
- >>prospective buyers and were told to tell buyers, that the version
- >>of V4 available was a pre-release version. It was tough to miss.
- >>If you did miss it...I sympathize.
- >
- >... is so! ... is not! ... is so!
- >
- >My we're adamant today, aren't we.
- >
- >Assuming it was a pre-release version, that presupposes that a *real*
- >version is in the works. When no *real* version was made available
- >a refund should have been made available (unless it was made clear
- >at purchase time that it might not happen).
- >
- >I suspect that any holder of one of these packages wouldn't have too
- >much trouble convincing ISC to make good. A few well-placed letters
- >to the right government agencies should do the trick. After all, most
- >states have laws against this kind of thing.
- >
- >So there! :-)
-
- Where? Where? Remembering back, which is not necessarily a crystal clear
- view, I recall the V4 versions were called "real" developer's releases
- but not "real" commercial releases. If that difference is significant
- to you, it may not be, the idea was that developers could get a jump
- on V4, before its commercial release.
-
- Of course, there is no ISC anymore, as far as PC Unix goes, there is
- only the Interactive product and the former employees of Interactive/
- Kodak now at SunSoft.
-
- Do you think SunSoft is legally liable, or morally, for the ISC V4
- product, or for continuing it, and that ISC Kodak misled V4 purchasers
- fraudulently? Or maybe Kodak is liable for selling the x86 product
- to SunSoft?
-
- When people get dead-ended with a product they are likely to be un-happy
- certainly, but when you say a "holder of one of these packages wouldn't
- have too much trouble convincing ISC to make good," and "most states
- have laws against this kind of thing," what does that mean? What would
- making good be? And what kind of thing is it here that states have
- laws against?
-
- I mean these questions in a nice way, and I'm not trying to anger
- anyone--Id like to know what people think SunSoft owe holders of
- Interactive V4 licenses and why.
- --
- Ed Whittemore uunet!maxed!ed ed@maxed.amg.com
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