Anton Britz wrote:
Is anybody using these tools and is this not unfair business practice..
Giving away software in order to KILL other software vendors ?

Back in the sixties American Management Systems sued IBM for giving away free software, mainly CRBE, thus undercutting sales of ROSCOE. AMS got a Pyrrhic victory, as IBM used this as an excuse to start charging for software that otherwise would have been free.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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