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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.210748.10595@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:07:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com> <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com> <8225@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8225@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com> bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson) writes:
- >> 1. You have DR-DOS6.0, a clone of MSDOS.
- >
- >Don't forget: 1a. You have Windows 3.0. It works fine with DR-DOS 6.0.
-
- Fine. This doesn't change anything below.
-
-
- >> 2. You buy Win3.1, an MS product that was designed to
- >> work with MSDOS. And indeed it does, as you note.
- >> 3. You find that Win3.1 doesn't work with DR-DOS6.0
- >>Then:
- >> 4. You complain to MS, not DR, about the problem.
- >
- >>See my confusion? Doesn't the problem have to do with the fidelity
- >>of the MSDOS emulation done by DR-DOS? Or am I missing something?
- >>I'd genuinely like to know...
- >
- >Yes, you're missing something. When an upgrade of an MS product doesn't work
- >with another OS on the system, and when the OS is written to duplicate
- >published MS-DOS functionality, then it's real hard to escape the conclusion
- >that the upgrade was deliberately set up to break with the other OS...like,
- >maybe, using undocumented interfaces to the OS...
-
- Only if you're a paranoid. Why is it easier to ascribe the
- incompatibilities to some nefarious (and utterly without evidence)
- plot by Microsoft than to a bug in a competing product? Bugs
- happen all the time - nefarious plots that no one can produce
- any substantiation for only happen in the Weekly World News,
- alt.conspiracy, and the minds of certain Microsoft bashers.
-
- -Phil
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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