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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![richard.anstruther@canrem.com]
- From: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
- Subject: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.3155.5804@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 21 Dec 92 09:07:49 EST
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- -> From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
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- -> |> to leverage other companies' apps out of the
- -> |> marketplace by giving its own application programmers the inside
- -> |> track to upcoming changes and undocumented features in the OS.
- -> Would somebody please tell me exactly what is wrong with that?
- -> Besides whining "its not _fair_!!!" Microsoft owns Windows and DOS.
- -> What Microsoft wants to reveal or not reveal isn't anybody's business
- -> but Microsofts.
-
- What's wrong with it is that it is illegal and has been for a long
- time. If you mean what is wrong with it in a moral sense, no doubt
- a lengthy debate is possible, like it is with most moral questions.
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