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echo: os2
to: Bob Wright
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1999-10-14 23:50:24
subject: Over ?! It`s only just .started. ...

 JdBP>> But this places a burden on development since it consequently 
 JdBP>> requires that "OS/2001" have new features that make the upgrade
 JdBP>> worthwhile, or else again one will be pilloried in the advocacy 
 JdBP>> echoes, this time for producing an upgrade that the cynics would 
 JdBP>> paint as nothing but a shallow ploy to get people to pay out all 
 JdBP>> over again.

 BW> Unless, of course, your company name is "Micro$oft"...

The same holds true.  Microsoft is in fact pilloried for exactly this.  The
difference is that Microsoft, being a monopoly, is able to simply ignore the
complaints without suffering any adverse consequences.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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