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- From: mbk@gibbs.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:03:12 GMT
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- Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
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- rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec29.004640.2498@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : >
- : > Instead, they are going after Microsoft because their OS programmers talk to
- : > their Application programmers. I don't see anything wrong with that at all.
- : >
- :
- : That's not the hangup that the FTC has with MS's business practices. And as
- : BG pointed out the MS OS folks talk to Lotus's Applications Group and Borland's
- : Applications Group, so why shouldn't it talk to MS's Applications Group.
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- Yeah, I wonder what the content of those conversations were. Just
- whose bug will get fixed first? Just whose features will be added?
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- : FWIW, the rumor is that BG went ballistic when he found out that the
- : applications group was using undocumented calls. Not because they got caught;
- : but rather, because the application will quit working if that specific function
- : is removed from the next Windows release.
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- The undocumented calls I think are essentially irrelevant. MS can
- use NO undocumented calls in their products and still have a huge advantage.
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- : --rick
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