NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/advocacy/11355

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From: [e-mail] (Timothy Purves)
Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 19:12:03 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steven D. Stern) writes:
>It's been said in this thread, over and over again, that MS enjoys some
>advantange due to it's dual role as an app- and OS-developer.  However,
>I received the Win 3.1 beta SDK probably about the same time the apps
>group did at MS (and I don't believe the one they got was any less buggy).


Lets not forget that major portions of Windows come from the Applications
group. Like DDE, OLE, 3dControls. The Excel Applications Group has made
many contributons to the evolvment of Windows. If we force the division
of the two groups Windows will not evolve as quickly as it has. And even
if the FTC does split them, how in the hell do you think they can enforce it?

The FTC should just go and disolve themselfs. Look what happended to AT&T...
it the best thing that could have happened for AT&T. I have been in meetings,
where the spokesperson was literly having  orgasms on the stage, talking about
what they were going to do, and what they could now get away with!.

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    Timothy Purves          linx!sygnus![e-mail]
    Waterford, MI
    USA