Aucbvax.1912
fa.works
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!dcrocker@udel
Wed Jun 24 07:22:21 1981
Vendor participation
It is my understanding that the purpose of this discussion is
to consider the technical aspects of personal work-stations. Arpa
and the rest of the military are investing quite a bit of money
in this area, so that this discussion would seem to be extremely
appropriate to the Arpanet mission.
There are a few products currently available. It would be
silly not to talk about them.
In talking about them, we will have specific questions about
their features. It seems to me that it would be completely
appropriate for the creators of a system to answer questions
about that system. The problem, of course, is that if such
answers are not carefully formulated, they consitute sales
pitches, which we agree is inappropriate.
I do not believe that conformance with the Arpanet
proscriptions necessarily requires commercial participants to be
prohibited from voicing opinions about the technology in general
or from answering specific questions about their product.
Touting their product is another matter.
I suggest that each company assign one technical (not
marketing) person to respond to queries. This will permit direct
information, while making "tone-control" easier.
Dave.
P.S. Sorry to add to the discussion about the disussion.
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