On 19 Oct 2009 13:47:18 -0700, steve_thomp...@stercomm.com (Thompson, Steve) wrote:
>Please tell me what you consider to be malicious actions. > >Would suing a company and then buying them out to keep from losing the >case meet your definition? Not mine. You can't buy a company that doesn't accept your bid. >Would refusing to license your software on machines other than what you >produce go toward malicious actions? No. It's also not malicious to have an exclusive contract with one vendor (iPhone/AT&T) >Would refusing to license your software for running on a competitor's >machine, when just a few months earlier you were doing that? That's closer. The way Apple did this was to switch the name of its operating system (I'm not sure which version - from 8 to 9 or from 9 to 10). Its old contract was no longer valid. >Enquiring minds would like to know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
