Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/20/11:28:44
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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