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- From: lmalloy@abacus.bates.edu (Laura G. Malloy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.011608.21413@orlith.bates.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 01:16:08 GMT
- References: <8288@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan04.041856.10899@microsoft.com> <8301@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8301@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan04.041856.10899@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >> I still contend that this line of "logic" is terminally flawed.
- >>Can you explain how you get from "Windows doesn't work with DR-DOS"
- >>to "Microsoft intentionally put code into Windows to make it
- >>not work with DR-DOS"?
- >
- >Because MS has quite a bit to gain and very little to lose by doing so.
- >Besides, If it weren't intentional, MS would have helped to fix the problem,
- >and in fact would have at least let DR test 3.1 with DR-DOS 6 on the same
- >basis as any other developer. After all, not doing so runs the risk of having
- >the folks who use and love DR-DOS not go out and buy Windows.
- >
- There's one thing that troubles me about this assumption that MS put a
- code checker into Win 3.1 for the sole purpose of befuddling DR-DOS
- users: if it's this easy to find out what they did, if it was as easy to
- correct as I've heard it was, if it was as easy for DR to update (they
- had the needed mod within hours of the Win 3.1 release), why for Pete's
- (!) sake would they do something so transparent? If this is, indeed,
- what they did, they look awfully bad. Since MS is darn good at
- marketing (which I would think includes projecting a positive image of
- the company), I find it difficult to believe they'd shoot themselves in
- the foot so.
-
- Any plausible reasons why they might have had an incompatiblitiy with
- DR-DOS?
-
- (Of course, then's there's OS/2, which was so difficult for me to
- install and get running, I might assume there's code in there to check
- if it's MY machine before refusing.... :)
-
- jmalloy@hamilton.edu
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