From:	jonklipp AT freenet DOT edmonton DOT ab DOT ca ()
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS / M$
Date:	20 Jan 1997 01:18:42 GMT
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Gene Buckle (geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net) wrote:

: > >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' !

: Now that's _funny_!  Even more amusing is the fact that none of the
: programmers at microsoft would use the programmer's workbench because it
: was such a kluge...

I didn't know the M$ programmers had that much common sense :)  Pity that
hadn't applied the same common sense when they were designing and
programming their OSes :)

jon

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