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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.053712.24930@sequent.com>
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- References: <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com> <1992Dec29.194318.27886@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1992Dec31.035545.3621@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 05:37:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.035545.3621@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.194318.27886@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >>bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson) writes:
- >>:
- >>: I'm confused; perhaps you can help me out of my confusion.
- >>:
- >>: 1. You have DR-DOS6.0, a clone of MSDOS.
- >>: 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...
- >>
- >>And if the fact that DRDOS's emulation is imperfect because of
- >>information held back by Mircrosoft?
- >>
- >
- > Oh, this is rich. The only way that DR-DOS could get perfect
- >MS-DOS emulation is if they had the source code. This source
- >code wasn't provided to them by Microsoft. Therefore, Microsoft
- >is a grand evil company for not turning over the hard work of
- >hundreds of engineers to their competitors.
- > Makes sense to me.
- >
- > -Phil
- >--
-
- I have to agree with you on this point, Phil. It does not make
- business sense to hand out code to any Tom, Dick or Harry that
- comes along and claims they want to write their own version of the
- software in question. IF they want it bad enough, let them buy
- source.
-
- Besides, the only DOS emulater that I have seen that really works
- is called OS/2 2.0 ...
-
- JMHO...
-
-
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