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- From: stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.080229.26489@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:02:29 GMT
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- OK, here's the situation as I understand it: Bob talked to some guy in DAP who
- told him he could get the source code. Based on this he quit his job and
- invested $100,000 in his project. Evetually he found out from somebody else
- that IBM _could_not_ legally provide the source code, because Microsoft
- wouldn't let them. And now he's mad at IBM?
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- Bob made a (very serious) mistake, the DAP guy (either deliberately or
- accidentally) was wrong, Microsoft is just being generally scummy towards OS/2,
- but I can see no fault here in either IBM or their DAP (it was mentioned that
- the employee in question was no longer with IBM. Whether voluntarily or not,
- we'll probably never know, but I wouldn't be surprised at the latter).
-
- All in all, this whole thing was quite unfortunate all round, but blaming IBM
- for all of it seems to me to be both completely pointless and wrong.
-
- And the point about a written contract was a good one. As it appears to me,
- one guy at IBM was giving out wrong information. The red tape of a written
- contract would have confirmed that what Bob wanted was, in fact, not possible.
- He wouldn't have gotten the contract, would have been told the problem right
- out, and would have been spared a great deal of expense.
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