RE: Becton Dickinson Attractors Software

Eric Martz (emartz@microbio.umass.edu)
Fri, 01 Jul 1994 15:07:23 -0500 (EST)

In message Thu, 30 Jun 1994 19:04:08 -0400,
Luther_Barden@nih.gov (Luther K. Barden) writes:

> Crippling (or licensing) a software product so it won't work with your
> competitor's data files is no great crime. It just limits the market for
> the software, and encourages third party developers to come up with
> something truly general.

It also encourages those of us who have written 'truly general' analysis
software to meet our in-house needs to make it freely available, e.g.
my MFI, Joe Trotter's WinMDI, and Rob Habbersett's IDYLK.

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