Paul, at 02:15 on May 28 1996, you wrote to david begley...

PE> The files required were made publicly available by IBM.  BFN.  Paul.

db> That's like saying someone could get a copy of OS/2 by getting enough 
db> FixPacks to build up the entire file set, and claim that "IBM made the 
db> files publicly available..."  IBM had/has the file(s) on their
bboard, but 
db> they're not there for the purposes that you indicate.

PE> Actually, in HPFS386's case I think they were.  The $2000 or
PE> whatever is for Lan/Server, not HPFS386.  They can't ship
PE> HPFS386 standard because they have to pay Microsoft big bucks.
PE> But that's not stopping "fixes" being made publicly available!

That's NOT what that fellow from IBM said in the OS/2 echo when you
stupidly announced to all and sundry that you had made HPFS386 publicly
available for freq sometime last year, was it?  :)

Regards, Bill
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