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- From: brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill)
- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.220154.446@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 22:01:54 GMT
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- In article <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
- >>I joined the Developers Assistance Program and through that arm
- >>obtained a verbal assurance that there would be "no problem" obtaining
- >>said source code since there was nothing proprietary. Based on this
- >>assurance and the license I had negotiated for using the interpreter I
- >>quit my day job to live off my savings and develop this product which I
- >>was going to call SimpleScript.
- >
- >Not to question your judgement in this case, but do you think that it was
- >really a wise move to do what you did on the basis of a verbal promise,
- >with nothing backing it up in writing?
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- I think you misunderstand Bob's problem. All he wanted was a sample printer
- driver. IBM should have had this available well before OS/2 2.0 GA shipped.
- The point is that they didn't, and they still don't.
- I would agree with you comment if Bob had wanted something unusual from
- IBM, but this is standard stuff.
-
- Brian
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