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From: mark@gcs.com (Mark Bolzern)
Subject: Re: APC UPS owners or potential buyers, trying to show user base
Organization: WorkGroup Solutions (FlagShip) & GCS, Inc.
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 04:37:01 GMT
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In article <316bjc$hlh@thor.tjhsst.edu>,
Craig Metz <cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu> wrote:
>	I had a talk today with Debbie Gray (sp?) of American Power Conversion
>regarding trying to get information on how to communicate with their Smart
>UPS products' onboard controllers in order to write a Linux driver. APC is
>one of the *many* manufacturers that plays the old NDA game, i.e., ``we
>consider that to be proprietary information that we have to protect''. However,
>she seemed to at least not be a brick wall to the idea of trying to change
>this policy so that a freely redistributable in source form Linux driver could
>be done. She told me that she will be talking to her supervisor when he's
>back from Interop next week about this. 

Try Best.... They have a better product (Rare that someone named that would)
and don't mind talking....  I got a Best UPS not too long ago with a full
programming manual, and source code in C for several different Unix versions.

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