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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 3 Jan 1993 14:55:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.210748.10595@microsoft.com> <8240@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.052018.5365@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.052018.5365@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- > News flahs for you: Windows 3.1 is not the same as Windows 3.0.
- >There were changes in the source code. One or more of those changes
- >caused incompatibilities with DR-DOS.
-
- Duh.
-
- >If you want to show that
- >your sinister plot exists, you need to show that something was
- >_intentionally_ done to make it break on DR-DOS. You haven't
- >done anything of the sort. More foundationless accusations.
-
- If DR-DOS conforms to all published interfaces to MS-DOS, and a new version of
- Windows breaks when used with that same DOS, and the previous version worked
- fine, and MS refuses to help fix the problem, then the conclusion that MS
- intentionally made Windows quit working on DR-DOS is very hard to escape.
-
- > Windows applications help to sell Windows. DR-DOS does not.
- >Seems pretty obvious to me.
-
- Windows helps to sell MS-DOS. DR-DOS does not. Seems pretty obvious to me.
-
- > Provide factual evidence of this malice.
-
- Good grief. YOu don't have it either for your side. You simply believe that MS
- is the good guy. I can understand that; after all nobody wants to work for the
- bad guys. Still, you haven't explained the OS/2 abandonment, or the NT FUD,
- and now this one. MS is trying very hard to attain 100% domination of the OS
- market. You can deny that all you want, but it's still true, and you won't
- convince me otherwise unless and until MS restores OS/2 support in its
- software products and competes with it and DR-DOS technically instead of by
- sleazeball tactics.
-
- ...but I suspect that Hell will freeze over first.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
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