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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:54:20 -0500
From: The Funkhousers <l-funkho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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CSI Director of Sales and Technical Support <rudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Protecting your software and data interests from developer monopolies in Y2K
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Given the fact that you have copyrighted the format do you really believe
that all vendors, whether of programs or data, will adopt them. Sounds like
you want to become the "Microsoft" of the data business.
An "open" standard is what's necessary so all can compete on the basis of
who can serve the using customer the best.
Richard Funkhouser
CSI Director of Sales and Technical Support wrote:
> SOME DEVELOPERS MAY BE TEMPTED TO PROFIT FROM Y2K COMPLIANCE ISSUES BY
> FORCING UNWARRANTED SOFTWARE SALES AND ADOPTING SECRET FORMATS.
>
> BY FOLLOWING CSI'S OPEN MILLENNIUM FORMAT, DEVELOPERS WILL BE COMPELLED
> TO FOLLOW IT TO RETAIN THEIR MARKET SHARE.
>
> DOWNLOAD THE CSIM FORMAT AND URGE YOUR DEVELOPER TO COMPLY WITH IT.
>
> www.csidata.com
>
> CSI Millennium (CSIM) format, which is Y2K compliant and can handle up
> to perhaps 20 fields of positive and/or negative floating point values
> per day. This format follows the old CompuTrac specification, with some
> revisions that will carry users through the 21st century. It is
> compatible with older (pre-6.5) versions of Metastock. We are also
> hopeful of becoming compatible with MetaStock's newest version that is
> no longer compatible with the original CompuTrac data format. We'll
> keep you posted. Please visit the CSI web site for up to date format
> details.
>
> Special Notice
>
> Please be advised that the
> CSIMillennium™ and the CSI ®
> basic formats are trademarked properties
> of CSI and the
> descriptive material, and the actual
> format structures are
> copyrighted © properties of CSI.
>
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