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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.052018.5365@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:20:18 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <8225@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.210748.10595@microsoft.com> <8240@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8240@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >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.
-
- News flahs for you: Windows 3.1 is not the same as Windows 3.0.
- There were changes in the source code. One or more of those changes
- caused incompatibilities with DR-DOS. If you want to show that
- your sinister plot exists, you need to show that something was
- _intentionally_ done to make it break on DR-DOS. You haven't
- done anything of the sort. More foundationless accusations.
-
-
- >> 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_???
-
- Windows applications help to sell Windows. DR-DOS does not.
- Seems pretty obvious to me.
-
-
- >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.
-
- Provide factual evidence of this malice.
-
- -Phil
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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