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From: stimpson@panix.com (S. Joel Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: APC refuses to give out info without NDA
Date: 22 Aug 1994 01:15:22 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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In <jmonroyCuwv3J.HpB@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:

>Craig Metz (cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu) wrote:
>:
>:	:: [deleted stuff] ::
>:
>: 	I strongly suggest that people interested in an UPS for Linux 
>: put significant bias against APC in their purchasing considerations. I am
>: going to be buying from Best Power, who not only fully documents their
>:	:: [deleted stuff] ::
>:
>	Might I recommend to Mr. Metz (and any others) 
>	that this type of critisium is uncalled for.   

>	True a company may want to be less that freindly
>	about the way in which the deal with the marketing/sales
>	policy of their products, but this is no reason 
>	to even suggest a "bias" of any sort.

>	My suggestion is to say.  The won't cooperate 
>	and leave it at that.   The world is full of plenty
>	of suppliers, manufactures, etc.  to start such
>	petty non-sense.

	I think you take to mild a position. Why would you want to buy 
from a company that won't tell you how to USE their product?