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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.211948.11282@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:19:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec21.3155.5804@dosgate>
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- In article <1992Dec21.3155.5804@dosgate> "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com> writes:
- >-> From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- >
- >-> |> 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.
-
- Huh? Can you cite any federal or state law that requires an
- operating systems vendor to reveal _any_ of the APIs in their
- system?
-
- -Phil
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