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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Poll : Microsoft support on the Internet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.191123.3502@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <720997472snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> <BxF3z1.Ey9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:11:23 GMT
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- In <BxF3z1.Ey9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> simms@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (dan simms) writes:
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- >nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke) writes:
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- >>I have been conducting a poll about whether readers would like Microsoft
- >>to provide support for their languages (particularly C7/C++) on the Internet.
-
- >>Responses so far :
- >>Yes :
- >>No :
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- >>The poll will close in ten days, when I will forward the final figures to
- >>Microsoft.
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- >Regardless of what you (or even the whole internet) wants the internet is
- >not for profit making, even if it would make it easier for academia to get
- >support. Microsoft providing customer support over the internet would
- >_have_ to be a violation..
-
- Then that puts Borland, Dell, and a lot of other folks in violation.
-
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