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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!philipla
- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.213321.24593@microsoft.com>
- Date: 05 Jan 93 21:33:21 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <8289@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan04.042526.11051@microsoft.com> <8302@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8302@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >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.
-
- I'm contacting marketing and sales about it. More to come.
-
-
- >There. How does it feel to have your own intellectually dishonest tactic
- >turned around on you?
-
- Huh? Asking for evidence for an unfounded claim is "intellectually
- dishonest"? Should I just accept everything you say on faith?
-
-
- >> 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.
-
- No, you're still not being compelled to buy DOS or Windows. If
- you don't want them that badly, you keep working your way down the
- list until you find a system that doesn't include them.
- I'm really unsure why people can't see this...
-
-
- >>>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.
-
- You still haven't, by your own admission.
-
-
- >/philipla@microsoft.com/h:j
-
- Oh joy... I made it into Jay's kill file... I guess that's
- a reasonable reaction - when you realize you can't support your
- own arguments, put your fingers in your ears and shout until the
- other side stops talking.
-
- -Phil
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- Phil Lafornara 1 Microsoft Way
- philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
-