In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/17/2007
   at 10:40 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>We jointly discovered that our common distributor had stolen tens of
>thousands of dollars from us

>Was it Ronald Reagan who said "trust, but verify"?

He quoted an old Russian saying.

>Even if a more technologically acceptable system were
>to be developed, it would also face anti-trust hurdles, because the
>US Department of Justice looks very unfavorably on any vendor
>collusion with regards to terms of doing business.

Would that that were true. The DOJ basically let m$ off the hook and
has turned a blind eye on noncompliance.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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