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Subject:Contacting competitors for information? From:"Geoff Hart" <geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca> To:TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 9 Dec 1999 08:11:19 -0500
I haven't been following this thread closely, but it seems to me that
the easiest and most ethical way to ask your competitors for
information is to post a question to techwr-l. You might not get
direct answers, but there's certainly no shortage of industry
expertise here. As a really good alternative, try to attend your local
STC or IEEE SIG-DOC meetings and do some networking; all
kinds of informal information exchange goes on at these meetings.
--Geoff Hart @8^{)} geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca (Pointe-Claire, Quebec)
"If you can't explain it to an 8-year-old, you don't understand it"--Albert Einstein
