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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.125718.5794@sequent.com>
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- References: <1992Dec20.220753.1755@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec21.233918.14782@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:57:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.233918.14782@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
- >helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >
- >>Why don't Novel, Lotus, et al, find a more creative solution to their problem
- >>than just using the FTC as a club against Microsoft? Here are some better
- >>alternatives:
- >
- >Did you whine like this when MCI forced the government to break up
- >AT&T?
- >
- >>1. Form a consortium with Digital Research (who makes DR DOS, a fully
- >> compatible MS DOS clone) to make a Windows 3.x clone.
- >
- >You would be better advised to do some research. Novell (correct spelling)
- >owns DR-DOS. Digital Research does not exist any longer. It was
- >bought by Novell and is now their Desktop systems division.
- >
- >And Novell is looking beyond Windows. In case you missed the Business
- >page from tomorrows Wall Street Journal, AT&T and Novell just announced
- >that they have signed a letter of intent for Novell to purchase
- >USL (UNIX Systems Laboratory). I.e., if the deal goes through (they
- >have board of director approval, but need government and USL stockholders
- >to agree) Novell will own UNIX, lock, stock, and copyright.
- >
-
- Say it isn't so !!!
-
- Well, there goes the neighborhood...
-
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