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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.191231.21612@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan02.091334.15394@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:12:31 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- : 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.
-
- And yet anyone with half a brain would see that the number of people
- wanting to develop OS/2 applications was likely to increase rather
- than decrease with the advent of OS/2 2.0.
-
- I don't think this is 'just business' I think it's disgraceful.
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
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