"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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It's not ignorance or stupidity, it was clear and deliberate malice. In
the context of the computer industry at the time, I still say it was
lying.

Grab lance, mount horse, tilt at windmills.

It ain't a lie when the facts are well-known and readily knowable for
everybody who cares to find out the accepted conventions.

Of course it was a *LIE* at the time! They chose to disregard long standing
conventions and create their own, simply for a marketing advantage.
Just because this is common business practice in the world of corporate
greed, does not make it right.

The fact that it is *NOW* standard convention, because other companies were
forced to follow suit, is a good example of why the world is going to hell
because of greedy corporations with no ethics or morals.

MrT.