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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.003732.13494@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:37:32 GMT
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- In article <8289@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- |> 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.
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- And I'll bet that Chystler dealerships are going to be the first ones with
- replacement parts for the 1994 model LeBaron. This is a non-issue.
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