Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 1997 07:36:40 -0500
From:	"Daniel P Hudson" <afn03257 AT afn DOT org>
Message-Id:	<199701281236.HAA40563@freenet3.freenet.ufl.edu>
To:	Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Lines:	51

Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net> wrote:
>> I just sick and tired of watching people flame companies for
>> practicing free-enterprise. I think they should all live in China for
>> a year or two, come back and see what theor blind flaming really says
>> about the freedom many countried practise. I mean come-on, he had the
>> average newbie convinced MS was working for the KGB during the cold
>> war witht hat paragraph, adn it was, IMHO, slander and nothing more
>> than tasteless slander. I used to run DR. DOS and I saw the very
>> message he complains about. Next he'll be saying the car companies
>> are unethical for warning against the possible problems of air-bags
>> with children.

>Chances are good that MS put that error message in there with the
>explicit function of making people gunshy of other DOS's than MS.  Keep

 Might be possible, but he made it sound liek the OS would blow up the
computer if it wasn't MS-DOS, all it does is warn, and truth be known,
DR. DOS was never 100% MS-DOS compatable so the warning was called for.
I never ran across any probelms under windows, but I only use windows,
to this day, for filmanager and Works. 

>that this happened before (and probably ignited) the investigation by
>the FTC into MS's os group mingling info with the applications group. 
>It's really a moot point today.  I understand your annoyance at some
>people that are freaked by MS's practices, but can you really blame
>them?

Umm, that was for MS's liscence agreement that IBM had to pay money for
every system sold whether MS-DOS was on it or not. Frankly, I thought
this was dumb, IBM should have known better than to sign such a thing.

But let's point out a few point they don't harp about,
1. AT&T, the makers of this precious Unix OS at one time was ordered
   by the FCC to permit useage of thier long-ditance lines, until then
   they were essentially a monopoly. Anyone care? No? So why the fuss
   over MS?

IBM and Intel have committed several violations, yet they never made the
news, but MS puts a warning message in Windows and the World is 
making a mountain out of a mole hill.

People used to complain MS charged for everything, now they complain
that Navigator is free. they used to complain that MS-DOS was
only 16Bit and had no GUI, now they complain windows is slow.

See the point? A legitimate complaint is one thing, but most of these
people just do it to bitch.
>g.

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