Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:04:45 GMT
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Paul Dixon <p DOT dixon AT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS / M$

>I looked on the Caldera homepage, and found an article about their suit
>against Microsoft.  It stated that some MS products (such as Windows)
>would print bogus error messages if something other than DOS were
>detected, for the sole purpose of forcing people to use MS products. 
The funniest instance I ever saw was trying to run M$ programmers workbench
(the C6 / F5 version) on an M$ NT box - the WorkBench put up a message about
'this product only works on Microsoft OSses' !
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