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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Apple/Novell merger discussed
- Message-ID: <0soXVB23w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:56:44 GMT
- References: <1gnt98INNgqv@uwm.edu>
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- anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- > In article <suLVVB13w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
- > >That would be interesting. We'd get to see whether the FSF would stick to
- > >their professed principles and boycott DOS machines.
- >
- > Huh? What does Novell have to do with MS-DOS? They have as much
- > relation to MS-DOS as Lotus does.
-
- You know this isn't true, because you say yourself:
-
- > Novell does happen to own Digital Research which
- > makes DR-DOS, a competitor to MS-DOS. Novell also makes the number one
- > file server operating system for MS-DOS and Macintosh.
-
- Yes. So if Novell and Apple merged, you'd presumably boycott DOS and
- Netware. And you'd have fun boycotting DR-DOS without boycotting
- MS-DOS, other OEM DOS versions, and Windows.
-
-
- mathew
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