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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: APC refuses to give out info without NDA
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 04:22:57 GMT
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Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
: In article <jmonroyCuwv3J.HpB@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:

: [ ... Company with non-disclosure policy is railed against ... ]

: ]	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.

: "Tit for tat, Dr. Lecter, tit for tat"  -- Clarise Starling
: 	_Thomas Harris, Silence of the Lambs_

:	:: [deleted stuff] ::
:
: This is, in the small scale, unwise, and in the large scale, nothing
: less than blatant stupidity.
:
	I will agree with Terry on this issue.

: If you disagree with this view, then you must believe that stupidity
: should have the minimum penalty possible.  Of course, this means that
: you believe people should post about products so that uninformed
: consumers are protected from the stupidity of buying something they
: can't use, right?  After all, the greatest stupidity for the greatest
: number...
:
	I'm not sure what you meant, so I won't quibble.

-- 
Jesus Monroy Jr                                          jmonroy@netcom.com
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