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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.091334.15394@microsoft.com>
- Date: 02 Jan 93 09:13:34 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan01.191303.10011@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.004314.10263@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
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- In article <1993Jan2.004314.10263@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >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.
-
- You can always move to a different compiler. This happens
- all the time in the real world. Sure, Microsoft is losing a
- compiler customer - in the long run, the company has gambled
- that the number of people wanting to produce OS/2 binaries
- isn't large enough to justify the expense of producing and
- supporting new compilers. This isn't "anti-competitive", it
- isn't "sleazy" - it's just business.
-
- -Phil
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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