On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:32:51 -0800, jk wrote:

Tim Killian wrote:

Wasn't there a big lawsuit over Bridgeport's home-grown CNC controller?
They were using customers for R&D, and a lot of them weren't too happy
about it.

Nothing wrong with using customers for R & D, at least according to
microsoft.
jk

Which demonstrates a critical differnence between the machine tool and
software industries.

--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.