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to: Brenton Vettoretti
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1995-05-01 19:21:08
subject: WfWG

Hi, Brenton.

BV> FM> As well as being faster, this WfWG is 'safer'. But I don't want safety!
BV> FM> I now can't run Norton's DiskSort, or Norton Utilities to change
BV> things,
BV> FM> in a DOS box because it intercepts the Int $26! Very clean though, a
BV> FM> helpful message from Windows in a dialog box, and the utility gets a
BV> FM> disk write error - no crashing the DOS box or anything crude like that.
BV> FM> But I like to keep me disk organised!

BV> Yeah, it's a cunt, ain't it. I hate it too as it always catches me
BV> out as well. Personally, I reckon the cunts at Micro$haft should be
BV> fucked and burned. Not necessarily in that order either.

Wow, kinky eh?

BV> I'm just waiting for the day that they start to charge all application
BV> developers a pseudo license fee for the privilege of shipping a Windoze
BV> application. It won't happen for a while yet, but it will happen.

BV> I guess one could almost argue that they are starting it with Win-95
BV> as you have to submit the program to them for testing before you can
BV> use the logo. It's only a step away...

I read something about that shortly after you posted this - got any
details?

Regards, FIM.

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