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- From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <roelle.726518856@uars_mag>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
- References: <wiegand.726161691@lido16> <1993Jan5.014925.29433@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8328@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.191651.24371@nosc.mil>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 18:47:36 GMT
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- discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
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- >In article <8328@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- >Jay, there are alternatives to DOS and Windows. IBM OS/2, Unix, Solaris,
- >DR-DOS, GEM... Microsoft hardly has a monopoly. Sure, if you want
- >MS-DOS or Windows, you gotta go to Microsoft... much as if you want
- >Coke (and Pepsi won't do) you gotta go to Coca Cola Company.
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- Unlike an operating system, soft drinks are end products. Applications,
- such as ice, does not have compatability problems that enables it to work
- properly in Pepsi, while rendering it ineffective with Coke. Coke and
- Pepsi can also be drank from the same glass without difficulty. The same
- cannot be said for software applications that must bend over backward
- to work under a given operating system
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