The Future End of Classic Computing

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Wed Apr 3 13:29:33 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin_at_xenosoft.com]

> At NCC (which was once the biggest show in the US, soon
> thereafter passed
> by by Comdex), booth staff at several manufacturers were incapable of
> imagining ANY possible use of disk format conversion other
> than the making
> of unauthorized copies of their proprietary software. In fact,

Yes, folks, people really are That Stupid. I wouldn't have suggested
this if I didn't think it was a possibility, but I find it incredibly
funny that it's actually been tried already. :)

> representatives of TWO companies threatened to sue me if I
> included their
> disk formats!

> Although I was out of town, and staying in a hotel room, I
> stayed up late
> that night to make sure that theirs were the very next formats that I
> added.

You did exactly what I would have done in that situation, perhaps
with a prominent note in the manual as to why.

> But neither company kept their promise of providing me with
> massive free
> publicity.

My only worry is that these days, they might actually go through
with it.

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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