From: jonklipp AT freenet DOT edmonton DOT ab DOT ca () Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OpenDOS / M$ Date: 20 Jan 1997 01:18:42 GMT Organization: Edmonton FreeNet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5buh5i$9ga$1@news.sas.ab.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Gene Buckle (geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net) wrote: : > >I looked on the Caldera homepage, and found an article about their suit : > >against Microsoft. It stated that some MS products (such as Windows) : > >would print bogus error messages if something other than DOS were : > >detected, for the sole purpose of forcing people to use MS products. : > The funniest instance I ever saw was trying to run M$ 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 -- jon klippenstein internet: klip AT cryogen DOT com uucp: alberta!ve6kik!dparrot!{root,klip} ham radio: ve6klp