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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: 4 Jan 1993 16:31:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan04.042526.11051@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >In article <8289@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >>OK...so either contribute some real numbers, or else admit that we're working
- >>with the best information we have.
- > That "best information" is a fantasy.
-
- Prove it. Provide evidence.
-
- There. How does it feel to have your own intellectually dishonest tactic
- turned around on you?
-
- > This keeps getting bandied about. No matter how many times you
- >say it, Jay, you aren't being "compelled" to buy DOS or Windows unless
- >there is _no_ OEM who sells a system without them. This is clearly
- >not that case, and so I conclude that you are either intentionally
- >distorting the facts or are woefully ignorant of them.
-
- If I decide that the Gateway 2000 486/50 is the best machine for me, and the
- Zeos is the second best, and the Northgate is the next choice, then I'm being
- compelled to buy DOS and Windows, because none of those systems are available
- without them.
-
- >>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.
- > Evidence, please. Put up or shut up, Jay.
-
- Go straight to hell. I'm tired of posting what I see with my own eyes as
- effects of MS' actions, and getting told that I haven't posted evidence.
-
- /philipla@microsoft.com/h:j
- --
- 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.
- "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
-