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- From: atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu (David O'Donnell)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.192014.6776@cs.brown.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Enhanced Cybernetic Logic Operating Systems Group
- References: <29DEC199209332560@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1i2m40INNi3p@network.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:20:14 GMT
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- In article <1i2m40INNi3p@network.ucsd.edu>
- mbk@gibbs.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
-
- >Yeah, I wonder what the content of those conversations were. Just
- >whose bug will get fixed first? Just whose features will be added?
-
- Well, if one is an MS-basher, it would seem that your question is rhetorical.
-
- >The undocumented calls I think are essentially irrelevant. MS can
- >use NO undocumented calls in their products and still have a huge advantage.
-
- ...and we must not, under any circumstances, allow Microsoft to have any ad-
- vantage at all, right? Why don't we force them to split into pieces, then
- force the OS division to continue to produce OSes for which source is given
- to all the competitors first, and held back from the other divisions? That
- should teach them a lesson, shouldn't it.
-
- If Microsoft is such a devil-incarnate, why doesn't some company produce an
- OS that runs adequately on a wide range of Intel-based CPUs and has features
- superior to MS-DOS? OS/2 Advocates, get serious; the world cannot afford to
- buy 486/33DXes with 16M of RAM and 250M hard drives just to get decent res-
- ponse.
-
- One would think that, if Microsoft were indeed one-upping the software world,
- we would not hear of applications by other companies being deemed better. And
- yet we do: Ami Professional; Paradox; Quicken; et cetera.
-
- -- David O'Donnell
- atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu
- The opinions expressed above are SOLELY mine and have no association with Brown
- University.
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