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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.140504.6677@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 14:05:04 GMT
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- Eirik Lygre (ekl@kvamdata.no) wrote:
- : I realize that Bob is pissed off -- I would, too. One thing, though, is that
- : the driver he needs is owned and copyrighted by Microsoft. Perhaps he could
- : talk to them, and have them release it. That way, he could (perhaps) get
- : his investment back. Given that Microsoft has a much better track record
- : with developer support, they would probably help him.
-
- You must be joking! Microsoft (and IBM) see OS/2 to be direct competition
- with Windows and NT and they have been doing there best to hinder OS/2
- (or at least to do nothing that could be seen to promote it) - i.e.
- remove OS/2 support from MSC, terminate OS/2 SDK, generally badmouth OS/2
- at all opportunities, choose not to producve OS/2 v2 versions of their
- apps, limit OS/2 support in NT to character based. From a business
- point of view it is just not in MS's interest to allow any OS/2 orientated
- code that they have rights to out.
-
- Of course this goes both ways - IBM did their best to make things difficult
- for MS after the break up by pointing out all the IBM patents that MS
- were using. Unfortunately Bob is the little guy trapped in the middle
- of someone else's battle.
-
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