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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: NT - it ain't got Novell either....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.232333.2099@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <2b24f878@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> <1992Dec11.200707.7580@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec14.012748.9226@sequent.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:23:33 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.012748.9226@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec11.200707.7580@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>In article <2b24f878@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- >>>
- >>> Novell NetWare support for OS/2 2.0 was shown many months before OS/2
- >>> 2.0 shipped, also. So there's no reason to think that Novell is doing
- >>> anything more for NT than they did for OS/2 2.0.
- >>
- >>Hmmm. You've missed the start of this thread, it seems. MS - had it played
- >>fair with Novell - might well have been able to ship Netware support with NT.
- >>
- >>Now they can't. Or maybe I'm confused. Perhaps the issue is that they were
- >>never allowed to in the first place....but tried to.
- >>
- >>Yeah....that would be right.
- >>
- >>Steve
- >>
-
- >As it is my understanding, Novell would not have let them without
- >some pound of flesh given in compensation. Ray Noorda wants to
- >play Great White Father to the unwashed in networking, and
- >Microsoft distributing IPX code with their platforms would ruin his
- >Napoleanic dream.
-
- Yeah, how dare he expect compensation for stuff that is his property.
- Who the hell does he think is and Novell are, Bill Gates and
- Microsoft? The NERVE of some people!
-
- >But, Microsoft did sign the agreements with Novell to perform, and
- >they should be held to those agreements, fair or otherwise.
-
- Yeah, poor Microsoft.
-
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