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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.004314.10263@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan01.191303.10011@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:43:14 GMT
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- philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec31.223910.27015@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- : >> In article <8239@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- : >> >No, but it does have an obligation to those who bought, for example, MSC 7 to
- : >> >do OS/2 development on as an upgrade to MSC 6, which had that capability...
- : >>
- : >> Why would an OS/2 developer upgrade to MSC 7? The product
- : >> doesn't support OS/2 - such an upgrade would be silly.
- : >
- : >So you're saying that MS will continue to support MSC 6 indefinitely?
- : >Thought not.
- :
- : Should they? Should they still be supporting, say, that
- : TRS-80 software that got released a while back? (BTW, I think
- : you can still call customer support for software that isn't
- : the current release.)
-
- Ah you are, either deliberately or otherwise, missing my point. I
- would not expect *anybody* to continue to support releases of old
- software indefinitely. This being the case, upgrading to a more recent
- release is not 'silly' but sensible. Unless, of course, the evil
- empire decides to remove support for a feature previously included -
- i.e. OS/2.
-
- You can't have it both ways.
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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