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From: mrunkel@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Marc A. Runkel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: APC refuses to give out info without NDA
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Date: 18 Aug 1994 18:36:48 GMT
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: Vince believes APC has more to gain from proprietary communications,
: than from an open system.  This is an 80's attitude.  Wake up Vince,
: we're half-way through the 90's!

Actually, we seem to have come full circle. Back in the CP/M days, no 
specs meant no sale.  :-)

If anyone from APC is reading this, you will be glad to know that I too 
will no longer be suggesting that the UMass buy APC UPS's.  Which is too 
bad, as I think they are good products.

--
Marc A. Runkel                              marc.runkel@registrar.umass.edu
Network Analyst                             Of course, this is just my
Registrar's Office * Systems Support Group  tiny, insignificant, humble
University of Massachusetts, Amherst        opinion.  If you don't like it....