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Subject:Re: Software Piracy (WAS: Good/bad docs) From:George Mena <George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:10:08 -0700
Someone's being too serious here...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Engstrom, Douglas D. [SMTP:EngstromDD -at- PHIBRED -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 1998 7:06 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Software Piracy (WAS: Good/bad docs)
>
[George Mena] snip
> Well, Michelin, Goodyear, etc. make a rather good business of
> re-inventing the wheel, year in and year out. If you can create a
> better, more usable wheel by doing so, and it benefits your company &
> users to have a better wheel, why not? If you can think of better
> ways
> to spend your time, feel free to do so.
>
[George Mena] snip
> It was a rebuttal-by-example of your over-broad and rather churlish
> assertion that companies that don't purchase the MS doc set are
> substandard across the board and doomed to early failure.
>
> Skoal,
>
> Doug Engstrom
> engstromdd -at- phibred -dot- com
>
