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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:2760 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1521 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!thumper From: thumper@netcom.com (Thumper!) Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's 386BSD Reference CD-ROM: Fraud? Message-ID: <thumperD05p4D.I7o@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.apps Organization: Flying Fish Racing X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <D04Lwp.73z@lemis.de> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 23:55:25 GMT Lines: 18 Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.de) wrote: : The documentation on the CD is of sufficient interest to Dr. Dobbs : that they don't want it printed in any form. In order to prevent : this, they have embedded it in a toy (MS Windows), which is not : able to print them. I agree, that is not good. If they felt they didn't want the documentation published, then they should have encoded it and enclosed their own reader (or multi-os readers) or something. I'm not 100 percent sure of the fraud position in the US, because I haven't seen the ad itself (or the exact wording), but it's certainly not ethical, that's for sure, even if it's not illegal. -- Thumper! Leporidae Extraordinhare thumper@netcom.com "The point of life is to achieve the impossible."