It's one thing to threaten a lawsuit against someone
reverse engineering the proprietary format for commercial
purposes, but to hold data hostage from its rightful owner
is outrageous.
Would anybody do business with these sharks if they
knew this ahead of time? I think not.
> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:51:11 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SV: SV: Can you read CA-Librarian Files without Librarian?
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/04/2008
> at 01:36 PM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >You'd think so, wouldn't you? However, we are converting from one Report
> >Archiving and Distribution system (vendor unnamed due to fear) to
> >another. We were going to directly read the files containing the reports.
> >We were told if we developed such a program we would be sued by the
> >vendor.
>
> I suspect that a round of publicity would cause them to either back off or
> to lose future sales.
>
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
> ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
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