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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 15:04:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.051750.5270@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- > Jay, have you seen _any_ real numbers on this? All I've
- >seen on this newsgroup, and I've been following the thread from
- >the beginning, is supposition and made up figures.
-
- OK...so either contribute some real numbers, or else admit that we're working
- with the best information we have.
-
- [example numbers deleted]
- The only catch is that I'm compelled to buy DOS and Windows, whether I want it
- or not, whether I'm already licensed for it or not, and whether I intend to
- run it or not.
-
- Meanwhile, MS gets to inflate its sales figures falsely, by claiming I'm a
- DOS/Windows user when I'm not.
-
- > If any application is using undocumented calls, it runs the
- >risk of not working in future releases of the OS. No one has shown
- >a shred of evidence that Microsoft apps are somehow immune to this
- >effect.
-
- Take off your MS-colored glasses for a moment.
-
- If MS uses undocumented calls, then the app developers get advance warning
- that the undocumented call they're using is going away, and they can hit the
- street the minute that the new version is out with an update that will work
- with the new version. Lotus, for example, doesn't have that luxury. This is on
- top of the advantage that MS developers get in the first place by knowing that
- the call is there.
-
- (Of course, MS will charge for the upgrade...thus bringing in even more
- bucks.)
-
- > There also isn't any evidence that any Microsoft application uses
- >an undocumented call to gain any significant performance advantage.
-
- If not, then why is it done?
-
- > Why would an OS/2 developer upgrade to MSC 7? The product
- >doesn't support OS/2 - such an upgrade would be silly.
-
- Nevertheless, there have been people in this very forum that have said they
- did exactly that. Where are they? Out in the cold, out the several hundred
- bucks they spent on it. Once again, MS abandons its politically incorrect
- users.
-
- > Show me foundation for them, then.
-
- The foundation is locked away in the twisty little mind of Bill Gates.
-
- > Based on rumor. Foundationless. The FTC hasn't done _anything_,
- >Jay. They haven't gone right to court. So where's your foundation
- >here?
-
- Yet.
-
- Haven't you been reading the articles reposted here? I seriously doubt that
- major magazines and newspapers would print that kind of thing unless they
- believed it to be true.
- --
- 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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