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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:16:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com> <8225@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.210748.10595@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.210748.10595@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >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.
-
- Of course it does. It means that something was done to Windows 3.1 to _make_
- it not work with DR-DOS.
-
- > 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.
-
- If "bugs happen all the time", then why was MS positively eager to work out
- incompatibilities with Windows 3.1 with _everyone_but_DR_???
-
- I have no trouble ascribing this kind of thing to malice; that malice is
- evident in any dealings MS has with anyone who dares to try to challenge MS'
- near monopoly in the OS field. FOrtunately, Novell and IBM aren't going to
- crack.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
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