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- From: robs@hardy.u.washington.edu (Robert Suh)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.231236.133@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 23:12:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec23.231236.133
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- In article <1992Dec20.215347.1614@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >|> AT best, it will
- >|> just require them to try an play an little fair(er) with the other children.
- >
- >I _still_ don't understand what isn't "fair" about what Microsoft is doing.
- >Why shouldn't Microsoft let its application programmers talk to its OS
- >programmers? What is wrong with giving their own programmers an edge?
-
- Awe, hit it right on the head. Is there some unwritten law that states
- that MS can't use so-called 'undocumented calls', sure it would be nice if
- this world was fair and everyone gets a fair shake, but come on. This
- 'undocumented calls' business is blown WAY out of proportion. Apple
- probably used 'undocumented calls' with it's software application base(CLARIS)
- , and I'm sure SUN, IBM, HP, or any other company that produces both
- Operation Systems and Applications do t ue so called 'undocumented calls'.
-
- If Lotus or Novell don't trust Microsoft, why not just make a competing
- operationg system? As I see it, they are just sitting there crying
- about fairness against a company that is better managed.
-
- Not to mention that MS does have a pretty good track record for working with
- other companies. For example, MS does a pretty good job helping ISV's,
- compared to IBM.
-
- "Alls fair in Software, if you don't like that, tough darts"
- DISCLAIMER - I live about a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from Microsoft's Campus,
- take it as it is. (No relation to Microsoft though...)
-